A Whale comes to New Jersey & Delaware

[LynneSin]

And no, the whale didn't have to pay a tollbooth

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/04/13waywardwhaleint.html



Wayward whale in the Delaware
Spectators line banks in Trenton: 'The city has gone mad'
/ From staff and wire reports
04/13/2005A wayward white whale paid a call on Trenton on Tuesday, creating a splash among delighted crowds along a narrow, urbanized stretch of the Delaware River about 55 miles upriver from Claymont.

New Jersey officials said they would attempt to herd the out-of-place mammal - believed to be a 10- to 12-foot beluga whale - back downriver.

Officials in Delaware said they had no information on the creature and no immediate plans to put out searchers, although some whales have moved 50 miles and more in a single day during past excursions up and down the Delaware. The Delaware Memorial Bridge is about 60 miles south of Trenton.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office spokesman Paul Loriquet watched the whale drama from his eighth-floor office window.

"I have a perfect view of the Delaware from my office, and this whale is going back and forth from the marina to the bridge," he said. "Four news helicopters are hovering overhead. The train is stopping on the train trestle, people are lining up along the river. It's like the city has gone mad. They might rename the bridge The Beluga Whale Bridge."

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[MADem]

1. Remember those curious feeding frenzy sharks?

And now this, which has happened before.

Where are our submarines, and what are they doing? Testing?