- Sticking any holes in the carcass, squirt enough content out – Dagbladet.no

- Sticking any holes in the carcass, squirt enough content out – Dagbladet.no

Saturday night acquires Coast Guard is responsible for hvalkadaveret that is about to explode. The plan is to lower the whale with sandbags.

The whale is located two to three nautical mil west of Sandøy outside Bergen. Coastguard went from Haakonsvern at Bergen in 18 times, and will take over responsibility for the carcass of the boat’s Kristian Gerhard Jebsen.

The Coast Guard may either puncture whale using shots, or lower carcass with sandbags. The decision will be taken with regard to weather and wind conditions and the whale size, informs Coastguard.

Slipper probably carcass

– Most likely we will drop the carcass, which then will flow north and pretty soon disappear says Commanding Officer at KV Bergen, Lars Lilleng to Bergens Tidende.

When the bulbous hvalkadaveret was about to be towed from the shoreline on Turøy at Sotra outside Bergen Saturday morning, broke the rope. The crew of the lifeboat Kristian Gerhard Jebsen discovered instantly that something was wrong and turned the boat. Eventually they towed the whale slowly out into the open sea.

Feared explosion

When the whale was lying upside down, smelled the hurt and became increasingly greater. Several researchers feared that the carcass would explode as a result of gas generated inside.

– It’s full of gas. Sticking a few holes on the carcass spurts enough content, says whale expert and physiology professor Lars Walløe from Oslo University said.

Had the whale, which probably is a humpback or fin whales, remained offshore after it died, other animals helped themselves and punctured the skin so that the gas would not gathered, the professor explains the newspaper.

(NTB)