A gruesome and awe-inspiring discovery was made in the frigid waters off northern Vancouver Island this weekend. A bloated dead humpback whale was discovered on the coast of Malcolm Island, B.C., just north of Port McNeill.
A gruesome and awe-inspiring discovery was made in the frigid waters off northern Vancouver Island this weekend.
The whale was found on Sunday during what was a usual drive for Andrew Pinch, a resident of Sointula, a village on Malcolm Island."Oh my god, it is a dead whale," he can be heard saying on his vehicle dashcam."So often dead whales sink to the bottom of the ocean whereby we lose the realities of how they died," said Jackie Hilderling with the Marine Education and Research Society.
The necropsy will hopefully reveal what caused the whale to die. Some options include disease or blunt force trauma – which is often caused by a vessel.
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