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It is a gruesome sight: The mangled carcass of a 30-foot whale hit by a ship off of New Jersey.
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It is a gruesome sight: The mangled carcass of a 30-foot whale hit by a ship in Newark Bay, New Jersey.
NBC-10 in Philly reports that the fatal ship vs. whale collision occurred several days ago. But the whale's mangled carcass has since resurfaced, this time in the Hudson River.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, N.J., tells NBC-10 that the 30-foot whale was first spotted under the bow of a cargo ship in Newark Bay by a pilot boat driver a couple of days ago. The ship appeared to have struck the whale, the pilot boat driver confirmed to the center.
The whale then sank, only to resurface in the Hudson River off Jersey City Wednesday, prompting crews to try to remove it, NBC-10 writes.
NBC-10 quotes an expert from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine who said he thinks the mammal may be a fin whale, not a humpback, but couldn't tell precisely from the aerial shot from Chopper 4 in New York.