Whale Farts

[Rickg]

Here is the link to an article I just came across regarding whale flatulence.

http://animal.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030825/whalegas.html?ct=1301.65312280045

Rickg

 

[zeN||]

Thatthings a damn mushroom cloud Z

 

[nwscubamom]

Sounds potent!

I try to practice blowing those neat 'smoke' rings when underwater, and there's a certain technique to getting a nice round ring that will stay intact on its way to the surface....

..but it looks like this whale is a NATURAL at it!! Albeit from the OTHER end....:blush:

 

[Dive_Girl PNW]

nwscubamom...

So I was sitting here scratching my head wondering what in the world you were talking about. You dive a drysuit! How on earth are you going to make "neat 'smoke' rings when underwater"??

Oh, I get it.....:haha:

 

[pipedope]

Having worked on a ship in Antarctica I have some experience around whales, especially humpbacks.

Whale breath is a smell that cannot be described, it must be experienced. There is only one thing that is worse than the breath of the whale, and it comes out the other end.

While doing a Krill study in a bay on the Antarctica peninsula we were visited by a pair of humpback whales. This pair were well known to the crew and were named Pete and Matilda after the ships captain and his girlfriend. The whales were swimming around the ship posing for photos and playing hide and seek where they make you try to guess which side of the ship they will surface on next.
Just as Pete surfaced amidships on the starboard side someone flushed the midships head (toilet) right in his face. He instantly done away from the ship and vanished. About 3 minutes later Pete came back to the same place and raising his tail high in the air, sprayed gallons and gallons of liquid poo all over the side of the ship.
More than on person lost their lunch right then.

We had to get out the firehose and wash down the ship to clean the mess.

Remember, never poop on someone with a bigger pooper than you.

 

[mars2u]

Top Ten

1) I guess the DM's should advise against lighting a match before diving.

2)Farting whales.... The males are bigger bubbles and the females never admit it anyway.

3) Do the females look at the male whales and go "ewwwww"?

4) And they said seafood was easy on the intestines...yeah right

5) STAY AWAY from the hind end which could cause A RAPID ASCENT to divers. Yeah...poor Joe he was diving behind a whale and the whale fart caused him to surface too quickly and get an embolism.

6) can you imagine the Gas-X tablet you'd need to cure that whale?

7) Try to light that thing and you'd get a sunburn


8) I guess all their farts would be considered "wet ones"


9) hmmm...might need to get a full face reg.

10) Gives a new meaning to "thar she blows"

 

[SCUBACrazy]

Too much information! TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!

 

[diverjed]

Methane toxic pollution! :boom:

 

[diverjed]

And speaking of whale farts, none of you would want to be near my desk right now as we type........whew! :mean:

 

[CBulla]

Well, if we have the sound of whales "singing" has anyone published a tape of "whale farts" just for something different..

All I know is that I wouldnt want to be above that in a small boat, well, anyboat for that matter..