Thames Whale update
Jan 21st 2006, 6:19 pm
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Thames Whale update
FYI, they now think the whale is too weak to release and may put it down! why not release it and let it try to survive??? if it dies it dies natualy 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm
Jan 21st 2006, 7:26 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by basementwaj
FYI, they now think the whale is too weak to release and may put it down! why not release it and let it try to survive??? if it dies it dies natualy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm
Jan 21st 2006, 7:28 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by Pimpbot
It's dead.
Jan 21st 2006, 9:34 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by basementwaj
if it dies it dies natualy
Jan 21st 2006, 9:35 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by Pimpbot
It's dead.
Jan 21st 2006, 10:12 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by CaliforniaBride
Drowning is natural?
Jan 21st 2006, 10:14 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Can fish drown? (....yes I know a whale is a mammal)
hiya, i think i'd answer yes to that...think i've read it somewhere
Jan 21st 2006, 10:17 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by TruBrit
hiya, i think i'd answer yes to that...think i've read it somewhere
Jan 21st 2006, 10:21 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Or maybe trainee fish swim upside down with snorkels, looking at people?
Jan 21st 2006, 10:35 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Just saw BBC World News on PBS, they said the whale died while it was on the barge being carried back out to sea. 
OT side note...
They interviewed one of the rescue team members and he had the exact same name as my DH: Mark Stevens. I just kept staring at the caption listing his name! Since I've spent most of my life with an unusual surname, it still takes me aback when I see someone else with the same name as Mark -- or as mine, for that matter. Jennifer was the #1 girl's name in America for three decades, and Stevens is the 127th most common surname in the US. On the other hand, my maiden name is only the 7310th most common surname in the US -- so seeing someone with the same name as me is still taking some getting used to! Mark is very used to it, however...
~ Jenney
OT side note...
They interviewed one of the rescue team members and he had the exact same name as my DH: Mark Stevens. I just kept staring at the caption listing his name! Since I've spent most of my life with an unusual surname, it still takes me aback when I see someone else with the same name as Mark -- or as mine, for that matter. Jennifer was the #1 girl's name in America for three decades, and Stevens is the 127th most common surname in the US. On the other hand, my maiden name is only the 7310th most common surname in the US -- so seeing someone with the same name as me is still taking some getting used to! Mark is very used to it, however...
~ Jenney
Jan 21st 2006, 10:53 pm
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Re: Thames Whale update
Been following this story since yesterday, been out most of today, wanted to see whats been going on, only to end up crying like a little Girl.
Jan 22nd 2006, 12:42 am
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Can fish drown? (....yes I know a whale is a mammal)
Jan 22nd 2006, 12:54 am
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by britvic
Been following this story since yesterday, been out most of today, wanted to see whats been going on, only to end up crying like a little Girl.
Jan 22nd 2006, 1:46 am
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by bionomique
I believe it has more to do with panic or frenzy. Breathing in sea mammals, such as whales, is not an involuntary action. Being air-breathing a whale must voluntarily open the blowhole when near the surface in order to take a breath. In a state of panic, either it doesn't take one and suffocates, or it may become disoriented with panic and take one while underwater and drown.
Did you just make that up?
Jan 22nd 2006, 1:51 am
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Re: Thames Whale update
Originally Posted by CaliforniaBride
Did you just make that up?
