Posted on 03/31/2021 5:24:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A dead gray whale was found Wednesday in the San Francisco Bay, near Crissy Field.
Amir Ali Bigdeli was taking his usual morning walk, right by St. Francis Yacht Club in Crissy Field, when he spotted the whale’s body floating in the water.
He snapped a picture of the whale, which he estimated to be over 40 feet long, a few hours after his walk.
Bigdeli, who lives in the Marina district, told SFGATE that he spoke to swimmers in the San Francisco Bay, and found that the whale may have died recently.
“According to the swimmers who were close to the carcass there was no smell,” Bigdeli told SFGATE in a message. “It's a sad sight,” he said.
Teams with the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito are expected to be on site today to investigate the sea mammal's death.
A spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center could not immediately provide more information regarding the whale's death, and the California Academy of Sciences did not immediately respond to a request for comment from SFGATE.
Dead whales happen. Grays are very slow and often get in the path of ships.
There may be a whoo ha over this as the gray whale population is down the last few years on the West Coast (but was way up for many years). So all the save the bunnies crowd will have their bloomers in a bunch....
BTW, I hope they don’t dispose of the carcas as one in Oregon was 50 years ago....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34
I imagine all the crappy runoff from SF is killing a lot of things in the Bay.
Hillary is dead? And in San Francisco?
Bring on the dynamite!
He’s dead, Jim!
The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds. LOL
Dead whale stinking to high heaven!
Yet no one noticed because it is San Francisco.
Poor thing. Probably chocked on a clumpy raft of disposable MASKS!
LOL - my first thought was “are they going to blow it up?”
My thoughts exactly. I’m a big fan of whales, went on a whale-watching boat but we never saw one.
Beat me to it!
Was hoping to find out that it was George Soros, but that evil bastard will never die, apparently.
Ditto that...
Blubber everywhere...what an idea!! Lol
Suck out the ambergris first then invite PITA to the dynamite party.
There was a whale corpse stuck under a pier once and wasn't noticed for a few months. Every time the tide rolled in the stink would come up the storm sewers and out the drains. Yeah we noticed the stench alright - we about keeled over. It wasn't the usual odor...sometimes it would flow into the mall at Embarcadero Center and randomly concentrate in a shop or restaurant...
SF Bay is full of discarded ‘waste”. Argh.
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