A massive, 32-foot long, 20,000-pound humpback whale washed up on Bethany Beach a few days ago, leaving many people hundreds of miles away very upset. <\/p>\n
The whale is now buried under the sand after, experts believe, it was killed in a collision with a ship. A shattered jaw is among the injuries the Marine Education Research and Rehabilitation Institute, a Delaware non-profit, saw at the beach.<\/p>\n
“Even just that one day made this whale so memorable to us,” said someone from the Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises, who spotted the whale over the summer.<\/p>\n
Turns out the whale was a regular along the New York coast, but had made his way up to their stretch of Cape Cod. <\/p>\n
“This particular whale has a very noticeable white spot in the middle of a black area on the tail, and that was how recognized it right off the bat,” she said.<\/p>\n
There are laws on the books that try to prevent ships from hitting whales, especially at night or in bad weather, but it would be almost impossible for a ship to spot a whale and stop quickly enough to avoid it. <\/p>\n
However, those that keep a close eye on the whale population say it is just torture to see any whale standed, especially ones they’ve gotten to know a bit. <\/p>\n
“There are a lot of individual whales that we see year after year that we really come to know and love.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive, 32-foot long, 20,000-pound humpback whale washed up on Bethany Beach a few days ago, leaving many…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":515199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,905,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-515198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-delaware","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115892803554902432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}