Whales are the suicide bombers of the sea.
A TV crew in the Faroe Islands was recording when a scientist was nearly blown away by a tide of decomposing innards after the dead sperm whale he cut into exploded.
The whale died when it got trapped in a narrow channel and locals wanted to preserve its skeleton in a museum. Marine biologist Bjarni Mikkelse told the Daily Mail it had been dead for about two days when he tried to open its stomach with a long blade. However, a large gas bubble erupted from the carcass of the whale almost immediately, nearly blowing the scientist away as well.
Strange as this incident might seem, it’s not the first time a whale has exploded on land. In 2004, a gas build-up inside a dead sperm whale in Taiwan led to a similar eruption. The most famous incident, however, took place in Oregon in 1970 when police blew up a whale carcass with a half-tonne of dynamite — sending giant chunks of blubber and flesh flying everywhere.