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Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by RandDigital(op): 11:03am On Nov 21, 2024

PEOPLE were excited when they saw a humpback whale being transported on the streets of Cape Town on Sunday, 17 November.

According to the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Hout Bay station commander Spencer Oldham, the huge whale carcass had washed ashore at Slangkop Lighthouse in Kommetjie.

It was loaded onto a truck by officials on Sunday morning and removed from the beach. Several residents were shocked by the whale's size as it was transported by truck.

"On Saturday, 16 November, at 9.11am, NSRI Hout Bay duty crew were activated to assist the City of Cape Town (CoCT) Marine Animal Stranding Network and the Department of Environment with a humpback whale carcass that was adrift offshore of Slangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie.

“The NSRI rescue craft Albie Matthews and Nadine Gordimer were launched, and the whale carcass was towed by NSRI Hout Bay to the Hout Bay Harbour slipway where the carcass was removed on Sunday by the CoCT Solid Waste Management, assisted by CoCT Law Enforcement, the SA Police Services, and the Cape Town Traffic Department. A large pod of dolphins accompanied NSRI during the towing operation," said Oldham.

Social media users who had a glimpse of the huge creature were amazed, as it was the first time many of them had seen such a sight.

The carcass was 14,8 metres in length and weighed about 35 000kg.

"This creature is huge; I used to see it in pictures, but today I have finally seen its size. It is very big," said Lorraine Gumbo on social media after seeing it in Constantia.

Siyabonga Bukani from Philippi said that he saw the truck carrying the whale while he was on his way to church.

"It’s very big; it filled up a long trailer of a truck. When I saw it in videos, I thought it was something small, but it was probably the size of three elephants. I couldn't believe that these creatures are that big," he said.

Two other humpback whales were also found washed dead on 15 October and 8 November 2024.

https://www.snl24.com/dailysun/news/cape-town-residents-stunned-by-a-massive-humpback-whale-transported-through-city-streets-20241120

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by FreeStuffsNG: 11:12am On Nov 21, 2024*

That is not good for public health.

RandDigital:
Solid Waste Management know what they're doing, probably used disinfectant first.

Smh. This is not how to dispose it. It's completely unprofessional to move the carcass of a rotten whale carcass through the public in broad daylight. Everyone involved in this obscene public health disgrace should be queried.

Memberclub:
Nigerians eat it that way lol

Nigerians don't eat rotten meat. Nobody eats rotten pungent maggot-filled protein.

If you eat rotten meat, please speak for yourself since you have been eating pungent rotten meat.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by RandDigital(op): 11:34am On Nov 21, 2024

FreeStuffsNG:
That is not good for public health.

Solid Waste Management know what they're doing, probably used disinfectant first.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by obiekunie01: 11:44am On Nov 21, 2024

i laugh in naija my country! cheesy

if you know you know. lipsrsealed

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Chijeep(m): 11:56am On Nov 21, 2024

Oyinbo get time ooo
Wetin Suraju and Musa go Don rush with cutlass to do the needful Oyinbo dey transport am go where I no know

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by datola: 11:56am On Nov 21, 2024

God is great! Only one animal big like many mountains combined.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by eepeepook: 11:56am On Nov 21, 2024

Scenes like this make me proud to be human. The average human is a 5’8, 69 kg male. Somehow, he created equipment big enough to split mountains into smaller pieces — an act which would take nature thousands of years to accomplish. Look at the size of that behemoth. How many humans would it take to pull it from point A to B? One human being in a machine was able to drive it for possibly hours to a relocation spot. God? We are God.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by obi4eze(m): 11:57am On Nov 21, 2024

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Kingmadiba2(m): 11:57am On Nov 21, 2024

obiekunie01:
i laugh in naija my country!

if you know you know.

Na better food be that

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by timilehin007(m): 11:57am On Nov 21, 2024

this thing could swallow 5 lions at once

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Flangelo12: 11:57am On Nov 21, 2024

obiekunie01:
i laugh in naija my country!

if you know you know.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Switinthemiddle(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

Boys no go let this one go like that for naija here ooo.
Even fuel tanker wey fall we dey collect fuel 😂😂😂 . Not to talk of Free meat or fish 😂😒

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by DamnnNiggarr: 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

My country men right now

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Collins0609(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by YoungLionken(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024*

What's SA news doing on the front page undecided

!?

The carcass of a whale, ehen and so what🤷‍♂️ undecided

..

These Sad Africans hate Nigerians without hiding it. And, somehow, they feel Nigerians are obsessed about them, even when majority of the Nigerian population don't even know shi about them SAns, as much as they know about us..

Nigerians, you people will never learn. Below is a screenshot of what a Sad African (prolly a Nairalander) thinks. Maybe based on the engagement here on nairaland, I can't tell sad

!!!

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by ZaddyJ: 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by vickthourh(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

Nice one

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Zico5(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

Many are salivating here in Nigeria already. Assuming this is found in South South, many would have filled their homes with fresh fish. Hunger would have gone down a bit.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by TOPCRUISE(m): 11:58am On Nov 21, 2024

Over here we are only be amazed for another reason

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by HustlePundit: 11:59am On Nov 21, 2024

That's probably heading to a specie preservative museum.

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Nazgul: 11:59am On Nov 21, 2024

Try transporting this in Nigeria and watch how ebin pawa miscreants would attack that truck with knives and keep chopping off the whale until there's nothing left.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by iwaeda: 11:59am On Nov 21, 2024

See pepper soup fish loaded. This will make sense at Yakoyo food canteen. grin

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by id4sho(m): 12:00pm On Nov 21, 2024

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by BlackfireX: 12:01pm On Nov 21, 2024

Hungry people

grin

They don't deserve independence from there master

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Unkindness: 12:01pm On Nov 21, 2024

Damn!! It's truly big and more realistic than most I've seen as if they were all CGI animated or so, but this looks too real for me like I'm seeing it life.

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Akwamkpuruamu: 12:02pm On Nov 21, 2024

Imagine fish wey truck de carry..

What a wasted protein

Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Jakumo(m): 12:03pm On Nov 21, 2024

In a few hours under the African sun, that whale carcass would inflate and explode like a bomb, so the leviathan must have washed up on a tourist beach, necessitating its removal for controlled disposal in a remote area.

If this event had taken place on a Nigerian beach, the whale would have been butchered long before it went bad, then sold at the rate of 2K naira per kilo, as a delicacy called "river cow".

Way back when Papa God was handing out entrepreneurial instinct, Nigerians were among the first in line to claim their generous allocation.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by ruggedtimi(m): 12:04pm On Nov 21, 2024

My ijaw brothers wont like this.

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Re: Shock As Giant Whale Carcass Is Transported Through SA Streets - PICTURES by Justiceleague1: 12:04pm On Nov 21, 2024

FreeStuffsNG:
That is not good for public health.

Those people there have working brains and they know what they are doing, thanks.
😁

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