Many people don't know why the people of Tainan City are so afraid of transporting whales, and they don't know what kind of nightmare they have experienced, and this matter has to start from 17 years.
One day 17 years ago, near the Xiaobei Night Market on Ximen Road in the center of Tainan City, China, there was a sudden loud noise, and a sperm whale weighing more than 50 tons exploded, and the explosion was so powerful that people nearby suspected that someone had stuffed a bomb in the belly of a whale.
What is even more desperate is that after the explosion, the whale's internal organs were thrown far away, and nearby shops, signboards, vehicles, and even telephone poles were contaminated with the whale's internal organs and blood, resulting in a foul smell on the entire street, and some people described it as: I will never forget this smell in my life. Others describe it as if there are thousands of pounds of stinky fish piled up here.
Until now, if you ask people who have experienced this whale explosion, they can describe how strong the smell is, and even recall the smell of the scene.
So the question is, why did the good sperm whale suddenly explode in the downtown area?
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In fact, the sperm whale was spotted by fishermen two days before the explosion, when they found the sperm whale stranded on the coast and by the time rescuers arrived, the sperm whale had died of unknown cause.
Dead sperm whales are a fortune for biologists, whether at home or abroad, there is a habit of dissecting dead whales, especially such a large sperm whale, it is unattainable.
Professor Wang Jianping of National Cheng Kung University did not miss this rare opportunity and prepared to study it. Unfortunately, the local beach did not have the anatomical conditions and had to take the sperm whale elsewhere, so the staff prepared to hoist it with a crane and transport it by truck.
To Professor Wang Jianping's expectation, the sperm whale is very large, originally thought that it was only about 20 tons, so two 20-ton cranes were found to lift it, but what was not expected was that after escaping the buoyancy of the water, the weight of the sperm whale exceeded 50 tons, which is one of the largest individuals among the stranded whales found in Taiwan.
In order to lift the sperm whale, the staff found a crane with a larger tonnage, which loaded the sperm whale on the car.
It took two days from the death of the sperm whale to the time it was loaded into the car and transported. During these two days, the stranded sperm whales attracted a large number of people to watch, and there were even stalls here, where people came and went.
In order to reduce the crowding, the staff decided to transport the sperm whale in the early hours of the morning. Although the journey was smooth, I did not expect that when I reached the downtown area, the whale suddenly blew itself up.
The degree of self-detonation is spectacular, the intestines in the whale's stomach, internal organs, blood clots are sprayed tens of meters away, and the stench of decay makes people sick. Desperately, both the size of the sperm whale and its total amount are so large that the entire street is full of foul-smelling whale organs and blood vessels, and according to the people at the scene, the whole scene is like a large murder scene.
Although the smell made people want to escape, Professor Wang Jianping still endured the stench, organized the staff to collect the substances erupted by the whales, and recycled each section of the intestine, organs, etc. The municipal staff urgently arranged for the cleaning team to continue to disinfect and clean up, and it took about half a day to clean up, but the stench of the whole street seemed to have been immersed in an inch of soil, and for a long time afterwards, people could smell this foul odor.
Although whale explosions do exist in nature, whale explosions in downtown Taiwan in China are somewhat bizarre, because whales have only been stranded to death for about 48 hours, and the appearance of whales does not show the typical characteristics of whale explosions.
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According to the research of experts, in fact, sperm whales have given obvious self-detonation signals before the explosion, and most of the artificial factors in this explosion are.
One of the signs of a whale's self-detonation is that its reproductive organs are exposed to the body. In normal times, in order to reduce the resistance of water, the reproductive organs of whales will be hidden in the abdominal cavity of the body, that is, the "reproductive fissure", and will only be exposed when mating.
This sperm whale is also a male sperm whale, and it is reasonable to say that its reproductive organs will also be hidden inside the body, but because it has more gas inside the body and the pressure is larger, its reproductive organs are squeezed out of the reproductive rift and hang outside the body. At the time, people were simply surprised that the whale's reproductive organs were so large that they didn't pay attention to the hidden dangers that the whale exploded during transport.
The cause of the explosion is the result of the joint action of whales and humans, of which there are more artificial factors.
The first is that the sperm whale weighs very heavily, and when people salvage the sperm whale, they first use the way of pulling the tail upwards, which causes the spine of the whale's body to bear the weight of the whole body, causing the muscles near the spine to tear, preparing for the next whale explosion.
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Second, when the larger-ton crane hoisted the sperm whale, only two ropes were used, the part near the tail, just in the position where the whale exploded.
Experts speculate that when using a crane to lift a sperm whale, strangulation marks that penetrate deep into the skin damage the muscles of this piece.
Coupled with the fact that whales are very heavy and fat is very thick, so that the heat preservation effect is very good, although it was the first month of the lunar calendar, the temperature in the whale's body was not low, which also led to the whale's microorganisms being very active, they also produced a large amount of gas while decomposing the whale's body organs.
When in seawater, the buoyancy of the water fills the entire body with gas, but when it is put on the car, the 50-ton weight will compress the sperm whale's internal space to a small part, causing all the gas to converge here and look for weak holes to escape.
This, coupled with small bumps in the vehicle during the ride, led to an accident: the sperm whale blew itself up.
Because the shadow brought by the whale's self-detonation is so great that people who have experienced the whale explosion today still remember it vividly.
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