Hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at why
dead whales are so dangerous whales are obviously one of the biggest animals of
all time now unlike sharks whales don't often go for humans and try and eat them
however when whales are no longer alive they become even more dangerous than an
alive shark that why on earth with this big today we're going to find out but
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coast of England over seven whales have washed up these whales are usually
absolutely massive and often wash up on beaches where people often go for the
day this is a phenomena called beaching beaching is where sea animals go up onto
the land instead of being in the ocean then of course because they need water
to breathe they die now this is not just happened with whales in fact every year
on the UK alone around 2,000 animals beached themselves however whales do
this more than any other animal and believe
it or not it's actually a scientific mystery as to why this is around 2,000
water animals beached themselves every year in the UK alone but around one
thousand of those are whales the most common type of whale to do this is a
sperm whale there are various reasons to try and explain this bizarre phenomena
one of them is the weather some say that if there's bad weather whales may get
disorientated and go towards the shore another reason is that whales hunt too
close to the shore they hunt for their prey too close to the shore and then
pulled in by the waves then because of the weakness of some whales this could
mean they can't get back into the ocean and a 2004 study by the University of
Tasmania came up with another potential reason that is that well sometimes
encounter navigation errors that is where they think they're going one way
but actually they're going the wrong way towards the shore they begin to follow
their prey closer to land and then they're unable to navigate away from the
shore all of these things are what would be known as natural strandings
but there's another kind of stranding which is called a follow-me strand
the reason why so many whales beached themselves is mainly because of Follow
Me strandings you see whales actually travel in pods this means many whales
often travel together to try and get the most prey possible
that's because whales survival is all about eating however whales can
communicate very very well and from far distances for example if one whale
expresses distress then the rest of the pod may try and locate them but that
means if one whale is beached then their entire group or pod will also become
beached this is called a follow-me stranding is
their following the rest of their pod to the shore this is why sometimes you see
various beached whales on the same beach chances are they're part of the same
part they heard one member of their pod in distress and all came to them that's
because they wanted to help them but little did they know they were stranded
and they cannot be helped because whales are so heavy once they're on the shore
there's almost no way they were able to get back into the sea follow me
strandings can also be caused by whales following dolphins or porpoises into
waters that are too shallow dolphins and porpoises may be able to get out but
because whales are so big and heavy they can't turn back around and they get
stuck on the beaches after whales get stranded they can't
breathe as they need water to breathe this makes the whales die which is when
they get incredibly dangerous but where exactly two whales become dangerous
after they pass away after all for most animals if they've passed away this
would mean they're totally safe well the reason why dead whales are so dangerous
is because of when they're dead they explode now don't get confused there's
not a bunch of TNT sitting in every whale first off let's look at what
happens when a whale dies normally in the wild normally when a whale dies it
would sink to the ocean floor it would then be picked apart by sharks fish and
tiny bone eating worms it could actually take around thirty years for this to
decompose and be eaten by sea life God went away this beached it has a totally
different death instead gas builds up inside the whale's stomach that's
because its contents begin to decompose however this gas cannot be released due
to the wells very thick-skinned Wells not only have thick skin but they also
have tough blubber this means all of the gases from their decomposing contents of
their stomach cannot be released the whales body weight then causes all of
their orifices to close up this means any holes in their body begin to close
making the problem even more severe this will cause a whale to swell up but
after this happens how exactly do they explode well believe it or not exploding
whales are not natural instead they're man-made oftentimes beached whales
provoke a lot of interest people on the beach may go up to them try and move
them or poke them but if just any old person does this the whale will explode
and that person could also pass on just imagine tons of whale guts flying at you
at a hundred miles an hour chances are you're not going to survive and believe
it or not people do pass away every year from whales exploding that's why
governments will actually hire a professional degassing
these people will make the whales explode in a controlled fashion
these people wear full biohazard suits they know exactly what they're doing and
they have to have training for years as the job is so dangerous now this
actually does happen with other animals but seeing as whales have such thick
blubber it makes it even more dangerous with whales and seeing as whales are the
largest animal in the world then this makes it even more noticeable and
dangerous one marine biologist named Aunt Ruth Allah has said a decomposing
whale is the worst smell in the world we all know that rotting fish doesn't smell
good well the decomposing whale is like that
bad times a thousand the most recent person to pass away from a whale
exploding happened in 2013 the guy was named George and this happened in Oregon
USA so if you ever see a beached whale do not go anywhere near it and
definitely do not poke it move it or touch it just the slightest tear could
cause it to explode and then you will no longer be alive instead you should
actually call up your local government they will send round a professional
degassed to deal with the situation try to make sure you're nowhere near it
it happens the explosions can be so bad it can send whale guts flying up to a
mile in the air these guts can then fall all over the place sometimes destroying
cars and even if it doesn't hit you it still produces the worst smell known to
man so guys that's why dead whales are much more dangerous than when they're
alive vote in the poll in the top right corner whether you would ever want to be
a professional whale degassing personally I wouldn't even though the
paychecks pretty good it's very dangerous and smells bad if you guys
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