The public is asked to continue to stay out of the water at Waimanalo Bay following the removal of a massive whale carcass Wednesday. A traditional Hawaiian blessing was held and witnessed by a group of about 50 people before it was hauled away to be buried on private land, the DLNR said. READ MORE: https://buff.ly/2QqhLfC #HINews #HNN | Hawaii News Now

“A good cameraman doesn’t miss a thing… in fact, they zoom in. 🎥 This was me having a ‘whale of a time’ reporting on the removal of the rotting, stinking carcass. 🤢” It’s not always a whale of a time when you are confronted with a decomposing carcass as 7NEWS reporter Kimberley Pratt discovered while on location at St Kilda. 7NEWS Adelaide at 11.30am, 4pm and 6pm on Channel 7 Adelaide | More: https://7news.link/3tGWo9s #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide

#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. Among the spectators was Walter Umenhofer who was a veteran with experience using explosives. He warned that too much dymanite was being used. The ensuing explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. A large chunk demolished a car. It belonged to Umenhofer (the insurance company paid for the en