The Blue Whale

DEFTLEFTHAND · 23-08-2015 06:03AM #1

The largest creature of our time, their average size ranges between 100 and 110 ft in length and their average weight is 200 tonnes. Marine scientists still know very little about them, their breeding patterns for instance are not understood at all.

Blues like all Baleen whale species were hunted to the extreme in the 19th and 20th century, it's estimated that about 10,000 still remain, they don't have a natural habitat, they roam the open water, for instance one was spotted off the Mayo coastline a couple of years back. Beautiful creatures, this guy working off the coastline of Sri Lanka has captured great unique footage of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDrx5zi_mYU

Th0mas Shelby · 23-08-2015 06:10AM

Apparently they ejaculate 40 gallons of sperm in one go. They're the ****ers making the ocean salty hey.

darkpagandeath · 23-08-2015 06:23AM

Is the Answer The Blue Whale ?

Sunnyisland · 23-08-2015 06:41AM

Is it not racism naming animals by a colour ? If there was a black whale or a white whale would there not be uproar,I think we should change its name to be more political correctness, thank you and good morning.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 23-08-2015 07:13AM

One of the worst scenes I ever witnessed on Livelink was a Jap Whaling vessel harpooning one of these rare beasts and then dropping weights to drown the animal as the ship legged up along side. When the line went silent they hauled the dead giant with hydraulic gear onto the vessel from the stern.

Dirty animals with no respect for international Whale preservation. Those fcuking Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian bastards also ignore the ban on whaling. God dam filth.

Menas · 23-08-2015 07:44AM

Do they hunt blue whales for food...or some oil or something?

dan1895 · 23-08-2015 07:48AM

Menas wrote: »

Do they hunt blue whales for food...or some oil or something?

"Research"

23-08-2015 07:50AM

Menas wrote: »

Do they hunt blue whales for food...or some oil or something?

Blubber, meat and oil.

Timberrrrrrrr · 23-08-2015 07:52AM

Th0mas Shelby wrote: »

Apparently they ejaculate 40 gallons of sperm in one go. They're the ****ers making the ocean salty hey.

So you know what sperm tastes like?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-08-2015 08:31AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The largest creature of our time..

Not of our time..of All time.

Kirby · 23-08-2015 09:16AM

Cameron Young Watchman wrote: »

Not of our time..of All time.

It's said a lot but its not really accurate. The were undoubtedly longer, bigger and heavier dinosaurs than the blue whale but the problem is that fossils of that ilk are notoriously hard to find....and the ones we do have are woefully incomplete.

So yeah, we dont have a full fossil to point to but we have partial fossils of guys like Amphicoelias. He is twice the size of a blue whale.....and he was a land animal. Imagine how big some of the ocean dwellers were. It's really mind boggling.

Whats sad is that soon all we will have left of the Blue whale is fossils because of scum hunting them to extinction. It's heart breaking.

EuropeanSon · 23-08-2015 09:41AM

Kirby wrote: »

It's said a lot but its not really accurate. The were undoubtedly longer, bigger and heavier dinosaurs than the blue whale but the problem is that fossils of that ilk are notoriously hard to find....and the ones we do have are woefully incomplete.

So yeah, we dont have a full fossil to point to but we have partial fossils of guys like Amphicoelias. He is twice the size of a blue whale.....and he was a land animal. Imagine how big some of the ocean dwellers were. It's really mind boggling.

Whats sad is that soon all we will have left of the Blue whale is fossils because of scum hunting them to extinction. It's heart breaking.

"Undoubtedly". Nonsense.

There is nothing but a description of a fossil of Amphicoelias around, made by a man who had every incentive to exaggerate and lie. And that description was that it was probably slightly heavier than a blue whale, though twice as long.

Sure, it's very possible that there were many Jurassic creatures larger than the blue whale, but there is currently no real evidence for them whatsoever.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-08-2015 10:02AM

Kirby wrote: »

It's said a lot but its not really accurate. The were undoubtedly longer, bigger and heavier dinosaurs than the blue whale but the problem is that fossils of that ilk are notoriously hard to find....and the ones we do have are woefully incomplete.

So yeah, we dont have a full fossil to point to but we have partial fossils of guys like Amphicoelias. He is twice the size of a blue whale.....and he was a land animal. Imagine how big some of the ocean dwellers were. It's really mind boggling.

Whats sad is that soon all we will have left of the Blue whale is fossils because of scum hunting them to extinction. It's heart breaking.

Pure speculation without proper scientific basis. The most extreme estimates for Amphicoelias are 70 tonnes less than the Blue whale.

FTA69 · 23-08-2015 10:07AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

One of the worst scenes I ever witnessed on Livelink was a Jap Whaling vessel harpooning one of these rare beasts and then dropping weights to drown the animal as the ship legged up along side. When the line went silent they hauled the dead giant with hydraulic gear onto the vessel from the stern.

Dirty animals with no respect for international Whale preservation. Those fcuking Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian bastards also ignore the ban on whaling. God dam filth.

I wouldn't say the Faroese are filth, they engage in a sustainable hunt of an animal they have consumed since time immemorial. They're no more "filth" than Native Americans who hunt the odd whale.

Banjo String · 23-08-2015 11:08AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The largest creature of our time, their average size ranges between 100 and 110 ft in length and their average weight is 200 tonnes. Marine scientists still know very little about them, their breeding patterns for instance are not understood at all.

Blues like all Baleen whale species were hunted to the extreme in the 19th and 20th century, it's estimated that about 10,000 still remain, they don't have a natural habitat, they roam the open water, for instance one was spotted off the Mayo coastline a couple of years back. Beautiful creatures, this guy working off the coastline of Sri Lanka has captured great unique footage of them.

They get taken to the whale way station to confirm this.

crockholm · 23-08-2015 11:27AM

"Call me Ishmael"

REXER · 23-08-2015 11:36AM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

One of the worst scenes I ever witnessed on Livelink was a Jap Whaling vessel harpooning one of these rare beasts and then dropping weights to drown the animal as the ship legged up along side. When the line went silent they hauled the dead giant with hydraulic gear onto the vessel from the stern.

Dirty animals with no respect for international Whale preservation. Those fcuking Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian bastards also ignore the ban on whaling. God dam filth.

The answer it seems would be to organize boycotts of products manufactured by those countries.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-08-2015 12:05PM

crockholm wrote: »

"Call me Ishmael"

You're not the Ishmael I remember if you're chasing Blue Whales. Wrong colour and wrong species.

Th0mas Shelby · 23-08-2015 01:07PM

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

So you know what sperm tastes like?

I, erm, read about it in a medical journal.

endacl · 23-08-2015 01:11PM

Th0mas Shelby wrote: »

Apparently they ejaculate 40 gallons of sperm in one go. They're the ****ers making the ocean salty hey.

And each testicle is the size of a Morris Minor!

Or was it a Morris dancer....?

crockholm · 24-08-2015 03:11PM

Cameron Young Watchman wrote: »

You're not the Ishmael I remember if you're chasing Blue Whales. Wrong colour and wrong species.

"Call me colour blind and non-discriminatory Ishmael then"

The Blue Whale

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