Alaska Rescuers Trying to Untangle Whale ("Is anyone here a marine biologist?")

AP ^ | 6/7/06

[Mr. Brightside]

June 06, 2006

Alaska Rescuers Trying to Untangle Whale

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Rescuers were unable to free a young humpback whale Tuesday who became caught in the lines and buoy of a crab pot in Glacier Bay National Park.

Attempts to free the whale would begin again on Wednesday, Chief Ranger Chuck Young said.

The whale swam about eight miles, to the entrance of Glacier Bay, since it was first spotted Tuesday morning.

Crews had attached two buoys and a sea anchor onto the tangled lines to slow the whale down so they could go in and cut the lines. Three attempts to cut the line failed on Tuesday.

The buoys also would serve as a marker if the whale swims away.

Glacier Bay is about 75 miles west of Juneau.

[Mr. Brightside]

"The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli."

ping

[SamuraiScot]

I hear humpbacks is good eatin'.

[Diggler]

Are humpback whales good eatin'?

[Diggler]

Same wavelength... scary.

[Conservomax]

The Infamous Exploding Whale

If you have never heard of, nor seen the IEW, please click on the above link. You will not regret it.

[Vaquero]

.......I got about fifty-feet out and then suddenly the great beast appeared before me. I tell ya he was ten stories high if he was a foot. As if sensing my presence he gave out a big bellow. I said, "Easy big fella!" And then as I watched him struggling I realized something was obstructing his breathing. From where I was standing I could see directly into the eye of the great fish! Jerry: Mammal. George: Whatever. Kramer: Well, what did you do next? George: Then from out of nowhere a huge title wave lifted, tossed like a quark and I found myself on top of him face to face with the blow-hole. I could barely see from all of the waves crashing down on top of me but I knew something was there so I reached my hand and pulled out the obstruction!

[opinionator]

"Is anyone here a marine biologist?"

"No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

[proud American in Canada]

If you have never heard of, nor seen the IEW, please click on the above link. You will not regret it.

Indeed! I had no idea this was a problem. LOL. :)

[Diggler]

I'm not a marine biologist, but I AM a thinker... </GlennBeck>

[proud American in Canada]

"No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night."

LOL! Somewhere there's a tie-in with the Geico gecko but I haven't had enough coffee to figure it out. ;)

[Red Badger]

I was a Marine who took Marine Biology in college, does that count?......

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You called?

[Quilla]

LOL!

George Constanza, Marine Biologist.

[Fawn]

Poor whale....

[edpc]

Then from out of nowhere a huge title wave lifted, tossed like a quark....

Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics. (The others are leptons.) Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks and antiquarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the fundamental forces.

LOL! I suppose you could toss around a quark, but I think the source of the quote meant cork. It was a great Seinfeld scene nevertheless.....

[cotton1706]

The sea was angry that day, my friends...like an old man trying to bring back soup at a deli...

[Vaquero]

like a QUARK

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Put a diver in the water (volunteer) and cut the lines.

[BlazingArizona]

Remember when this guy ran and pulled 20%? That's why neither Clinton nor Bush Sr. had a majority that year.