Whale carcass dragged into Oakland
California newspapers report a container ship dragged the carcass of a whale into Oakland harbor on Thursday.
Photographs and video showed the whale atop the bulbous bow of the containership Northern Vitality as it was docked in Oakland.
The ship had traveled to Oakland from Los Angeles, and the whale had been dead for days or longer by the time it was discovered on Thursday, according to comments from a marine biologist at the National Marine Fisheries Service, quoted in the Oakland Tribune. Scientists were trying to discover if the animal was alive when it was struck by the ship or was a floating carcass that got wedged onto the bow.
Whale carcass dragged into Oakland
