CapeMayCountyHerald.com: NOAA, Coast Guard Recover Dead Whale Off Cape May


Photo Credit: The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Finback

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Coast Guard recovered a right whale carcass approximately 46 miles off the coast of Cape May Thurs., July 1. The dead whale will be brought ashore for NOAA scientists to conduct a necropsy to take biological samples and to determine the cause of death.

The whale carcass was initially reported 46 miles off Cape May Tuesday by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare, which was returning to Portsmouth, Va., following a 33-day deployment in the Mid-Atlantic. A NOAA aircraft provided an updated position of the whale on Wednesday when the carcass was observed 69 miles off Cape May.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 7/2/2010 10:00 AM
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: coast guard cutter legare whale carcass whale coast guard noaa cape may
 

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