Comment by wbl
8 hours ago
"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" - prior failure of intuitively appealing disposal option.
8 hours ago
"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" - prior failure of intuitively appealing disposal option.
Even in 1970 that could not have made sense to anybody with a brain. They certainly knew enough about explosives to know that the kind of blast required to reliably vaporize an entire whale carcass would be considerably larger than anything they were going to do on a public beach. That whole event was just a couple dudes who thought it would be hilarious and insufficient supervision by adults.
Diluting salty rotting fish sauce in seawater is a lot more defensible. It's not like they'd have to just dump it all in one spot.
Transporting forty-five tons of this stinking liquid far enough offshore won't be cheap.
Why not? That's only one big truckload. Oceangoing ships capable of hauling such a small load are easy to come by.
wrapping it in plastic and burying it in a landfill will also not be cheap