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Sludgie the Whale was removed from the Gowanus Bay yesterday - and not without difficulty. The first time the Army Corp of Engineers tried to remove him, Sludgie slipped out of the knot and, as Newsday puts it, "plunged to the depths of the harbor, 30 feet below." The ACE's boat captain said, "It was a 'might knot' -- it might hold and it might not." Army Corp of Engineers: Can help get Intrepid moved, can't tie a knot to hold a 3,500-5,000 pound minke whale (but the ACE has hauled in other dead whales before in the New York Harbor area).
With Sludgie at the bottom of the harbor, the NYPD's underwater divers were called in to "retrieve" Sludgie, which they did using "pattern search" in the zero-visibility water. The ACE told Newsday that it could have taken Sludgie 2 days to resurface (ugh, dead carcass bloat) and that there might be navigational issues if the whale wasn't retrieved.
The necropsy will be performed in Jersey City. Based on initial reports, some believe Sludgie may have been to young to survive on his own. Gowanus Lounge writes it might be a slight comfort to find out that Sludgie was not killed by the Gowanus's quality - and reveals that there was a whale in the Gowanus back in 1952 when it was even more disgusting!
Photographs by Dima Gavrysh/AP
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it's a shame there was no effort to rescue sludgie and get him back out to open waters while he was still alive.
do you think anything can survive for two days in the Gowanus canal? You've got to be kidding.
my point exactly
Jen,
There's no reason to be snippy about what the Army Corps of Engineers "Can" and "can't" do. I'm sure everyone involved in the attempts to do something with Lil' Sludgie put in a hell of a lot more effort and more were emotionally invested in saving this whale than, say, anyone blogging about them (or commenting about blogging about them for that matter).
I'm surprised it lasted two days at all in the sewage !
gabe, no one made any efforts until it was dead. no need to get all self righteous, jen's article isnt snippy at all, and even states at the bottom that sludgie's death probably was not related to the quality of the gowanus water. get off your high horse, please.
Half the "articles" on this site are designed to be snippy and provoke and drive up ad dollars (like, for obvious example, that retarded one about equivalent cost of living in other cities the other day).
That said, somebody turn that jackpot into sushi and pepper steaks before it's too late! Minke is delicious.
it's "TOO YOUNG" not "TO YOUNG," idiot.