It beached itself on November 12, 1970, and it died not long after on the lonely stretch of the Oregon coast. Whale ActionThe infamous Exploding Whale of November 1970, when the Oregon Highway Division (now the Oregon Department of Transportation) blew up a decaying.

This is a great community, and sports and recreation plays a part in that.' The exploding whale The whale in question in this incident was a sperm whale. 'Send us your press releases, your story ideas, your great photos of people at play, and we will try our best to get the word out. 'The goal is to augment the coverage of the town's fine local paper, the Siuslaw News,' says website founder Stan Pusieski, who retired to Florence following a 45-year career in sports journalism in Oregon, Hawaii and Guam. In 2020, Barry was interviewed in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the exploding whale and the role he played in. Amazingly, many news bureaus actually reported the incident as though it had just happened. The new website will include stories, photos, schedules, statistics, announcements and more, with the content largely dependent on the support and goodwill of the people who live in or near the coastal community. By 1994 the exploding whale had worked its way onto the Internet in the form of an uncredited version of Dave Barry’s article. 17, 2015, the first day of practice for the Siuslaw High School fall sports season. Exploding Whale Sports, featuring sports and recreation in the Florence, Oregon, area, was launched Monday, Aug.

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