A Whale Blasted an Ungodly Amount of Ass Ham All Over Some Divers

[sl8]

From https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nnqp4z/a-whale-blasted-an-ungodly-amount-of-ass-ham-all-over-some-divers

A Whale Blasted an Ungodly Amount of Ass Ham All Over Some Divers

The whale flipped onto its side and started spinning in circles while engulfing the divers in shit, creating what one of the divers called a "poonado."

By Mark Hay
Jan 23 2015, 3:45pm

A group of divers near the Caribbean island of Dominica were engulfed in a mighty cloud of shit churned out by a sperm whale. The men were on a routine expedition to photograph the whales when one of their subjects started blasting an ungodly amount of butt butter into the ocean while spinning in circles, causing what one of the divers called a "poonado." Showing no mercy, the beast didn't stop until a 100-foot-wide cloud of its Mississippi mud had coated the divers and their equipment.

In a show of unwavering dedication to his craft, Canadian photographer Keri Wilk managed to capture the experience on film. Some believe the torrent of rusty nuggets was a little known defense mechanism, triggered by the proximity of the divers. On the other hand, it could have just been a spastic, diarrheic beast—that's how little we understand about whales and their insane, magical shits.

"The whale bobbed up and down, spun in circles, and waved the poo in every direction for several minutes while we just sat back and watched," The Telegraph quoted Wilk as saying of the ordeal.

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[dewsgirl]

1. The language used in that article.....

Editing to add, I just saw that it's Vice, I love Vice.

[Fla Dem]

2. There poop is vital to the health of the ocean. Who knew?

From what we know about the massive colon cannonballs fired by sperm whales, they are just as extraordinary as the animal they come from. Over the past few years, biologists have determined that whale waste may actually act like a giant environmental regulation system. Full of iron and other vital nutrients , concentrated at up to 10,000,000 times their natural occurrence in seawater, when released these turds become the basis for booms in plankton. These critters in turn pull hundreds of thousands of pounds of carbon out of the air each year through photosynthesis, then fuel booms in fish populations as a food source. So the lack of the natural environmental engineering power of whale poop, thanks to whaling's decimation of the species, may be one major causes of oceanic depopulation .

[Wounded Bear]

3. Gotta be a record in number of euphemisms for shit...

[2naSalit]

4. A whale of a sh*tstorm!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. "Poonado" makes me think of tRump when he speaks or tweets.

That's why I never listen to him.

Thanks for the informative article that informs us on another important ecosystem, SL8. Another interesting factoid:

Whales' alimentary tracts also produce ambergris, a fatty lump created to coat and pass squid beaks along with all the other excreta. Only shat out by some whales, and killing others through intestinal blockages, ambergris is an underground and little understood commodity valued as a status symbol and (for its unique and binding scent) component of traditional perfumes, fetching $1,000 to $5,000 or more per pound.

KY...........