If you thought over 100 frenzied sharks eating a dead whale was a tremendously unpleasant reason to go in the water, here’s a swim hazard that’s depressingly weirder. A 38-foot-long dead humpback — that Australian cetacean rescue experts speculate was hit by a ship while migrating — washed up in an ocean bath abutting Sydney’s Newport Beach. The bath was closed to swimmers, on the off chance sharks breached the walls.
https://gizmodo.com/100-sharks-eating-a-dead-whale-close-to-shore-worst-b-5920393
Although whale beachings are sad, surreal, and happen under even stranger circumstances, park official Chris Grudhoff noted a silver lining: “The upside of the fact that we are seeing more dead whales is that it indicates that we have a whole healthy population out there in the ocean.”
https://gizmodo.com/33-foot-long-dead-whale-found-beached-in-english-field-5845718
[Via Arbroath]
