Posted on 08/08/2008 8:17:36 AM PDT by BGHater
The Canadian military is sending a long-range Aurora aircraft to investigate reports of a mysterious explosion along Canada's Northwest Passage that may have killed several whales.
The drama apparently began in the early-morning hours of July 31, when an Inuit hunting party at an outpost camp at Borden Peninsula on northeastern Baffin Island was alerted to the sound of an explosion, followed by a cloud of black smoke.
An Inuit member of the Canadian Rangers, a military reservist unit stationed in the far North, reported the incident, and said a hunter at the camp saw several dead whales on shore when he went over to investigate.
In a preliminary investigation, DND's Joint Task Force Northern headquarters determined there were no known vessels operating in the area, and it did not know of any activity that could have caused an explosion.
"At this point, we really have very little else to report," says Summer Halliday, a spokeswoman for the Joint Task Force in Yellowknife.
"But we will be sending an Aurora aircraft to do a flyover. The plane is currently up north in the Mackenzie Valley on a routine exercise supporting the RCMP's Operation Nunakput."
Parks Canada will also be on the scene with a boat that's being dispatched from Sirmilik National Park on Bylot Island.
Originally designed for anti-submarine warfare, the Aurora is able to detect and destroy the latest generation of stealth submarines.
But its long-range capabilities are what make it so useful to the military. It can fly for 17 hours and cover 9,266 kilometres without refuelling.
The Aurora is frequently used to search out illegal fishing, illegal immigration, drug trafficking and pollution along Canada's three coastlines.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Whale freedom fighters killed in a work accident.
Speaking of Whales, classic Whale blowup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y
“Does Georgia have any subs?”
No. But they do have exploding peaches.
“Dey useee dem Dupont Lures (half stick of dynamite) fo’ sure”.
Up here we call ‘em “CIL Willow Leafs”
Unsurprisingly, Canadian Industries Limited is the historical provider of explosives in the GWN.
This was obviously a Muslim Whale Bomb Shop Accident. Been some problems. Female Muslim Whales claim the explosive vest makes'em look fat.
Sounds like dynamite fishing to me ( AKA blast fishing), only in a very big way.
"Nuke a homosexual Iranian Whale for Jesus"
Shouldn't it be 2D10 (percentile)?
Aragorn - Master of the Arcane
off to the dungeon with you!!!
Why just the other day they were talking about the recent discovery of numerous volcanoes under the polar ice.
There are tons of volcanoes on the ocean floor.
I wonder what would cause an explosion and belching of dark clouds of gas?
While you are not quite there yet, you are well on the road toward politically correct speech patterns. Please stay away from the HR Department until I certify the completion of your progress toward that worthy goal: Total PC!
Before saying anything for the rest of the day, stop and think
... I want to believe...
Canada bought the Auroras in the late 1970s as replacements for the Argus patrol planes.
Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
Maybe the whales were gay?
You would have had to see the bumper sticker...
Hugh finally fell thru the ice?
BUMP for later read
Look at that. Arthur March and DoughtyOne on the same thread. I remember those two from the heady days of the breaking Lewinsky scandal. The traffic shut FR down for the entire first weekend. I so miss Big Bill!
My thoughts exactly Mr Bata-via. Eiher Hugh, like you mentioned , or perhaps they had enough of Rick’s whining and took him up and then blew up his body with dynamite.
But do not underestimate our friend Drew, he may have finally been allowed to haul something and he was either hauling high explosives or gasoline and looked in the tank, using his cifarette lighter for light.
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