Summary

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 131429
Story Slug Fea: Whale Skeleton (04/15/1998)
Location New Bedford. MA
Format PKG
Date 4/15/1998
Archive Time 35:32
TRT 1:28
Supers New Bedford, Massachussets Penny Donald, New Bedford Whaling Museum Robert Hauser, New Bedford Whaling Museam David Boeri, Reporting
Video Description whale wrapped up , reporter, sot of female, whale skeleton , whale in water people walking on beach, skeleton in back of truck, sot of male, skeleton hanging in room, moving whale skeleton, sot of male, diver, crane putting skeleton into water, sot of male, pieces of skeleton.
Script LEAD: Remember that blue whale that washed up off Newport, Rhode Island last month? It's gone back to the sea...port of . Whaling researchers have placed sections of whale's skeleton into New Bedford Harbour....hoping smallfish, crabs and other sea creatures will help make it museum ready. David Boeri explains..... (Take Pkg) SCRIPT: SOT Fortunately we weren't, but it was. SOT A month and a week have passed since this 68 foot long blue whale sustained a broken jaw and fractured skull in an apparent collision with a ship in the lanes off Middletown Rhode Island. Jumping like a harpoon striker, at the opportunity for a new mobile, the New Bedford Whaling Museum laid claim to the carcass. With indomitable spirit of Yankee whaler, they butchered it and brought the bones home.... and stored it, some would say fittingly, close to the proposed site of last ill-fated plane for a gambling casino. SOT No, but imagine if you would just the challenge say of reassembling your Thanksgiving turkey after the meal if you eanted to hand the skeleton in your living room. The jawbones of THIS turkey are twenty feet long and the tongue alone weighed as much as an elephant. And so in a reversal of the traditional whaling techniques, today New Bedford put the whale into the sea...actually the harbor, where fish and crabs and creatures big and small will eat the meat off the bones, rare bones of an endangered species. END
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