“Well, I wouldn’t exactly call it an explosion, but it can be like an enormous fart. It would be quite unpleasant if the stomach blows up. It’s not very nice to have rotten whale parts showering over you.”
These comments were made by Tore Haug of the Norwegian Marine Research Institute in Bergen as he described [...]

Way up in the northwestern corner of Oregon is the small town of Clatskanie. Despite being over 200 miles away from where Oregon’s infamous whale made its debut, it lays claim to its own unique connections to the Exploding Whale.
In an editorial in The Clatskanie Chief, publisher and editor Deborah Steele Hazen writes, “There [...]

As the Register-Guard’s resident exploding whale-lover, Bob Welch has written about Oregon’s exploding whale several times. See what happened when he recently asked readers to submit their top 4 made-in-Oregon movies.

Has anyone seen the new movie, Reno 911!: Miami? Apparently, the “Reno 911″ crew blows up the carcass of a dead whale they find on Miami’s South Beach.
There’s a reference to it in the following Chicago Herald News interview with two of the actors.

Earlier this year, we pointed out an article that suggested that the Exploding Whale may have been the first example of a viral video. Now the BBC is reporting that our beloved Exploding Whale video — which you can watch right here — is the fifth most watched viral video on the web! On the [...]

Just a quick blurb to make sure that the 36th anniversary of Oregon’s Exploding Whale does not go unnoticed. It was on November 12, 1970, that the Oregon Highway Division detonated a half-ton of dynamite around the rotting carcass of a sperm whale… and made history.
The date also marks the first anniversary of our [...]