Thanks Joey for this information.
That is a photo of a Great Blue who was killed, along with her calf, off the coast of Mendecino about 2 years ago. She was struck by the same seismic survey ship that was going to do the seismic tests for PG&E at Diablo Canyon. Owned by Fugro Pelegros, she was operating with no permits and no marine mammal lookout as required by law. We here on the Central Coast refer to her as the 'Death Ship'. We used to watch her parade up and down the mouth of Avila Bay, working for PG&E doing low energy ('only' 216db!) seismic pings to keep the whales from re-entering Avila Bay after the 'Miracle of Avila'. The State Lands Commission recently gave a rubber stamp ok to new 'low level' seismic testing throughout the coast of California. This skeleton is a trophy of the
The state Coastal Conservancy came to the coast last week and was given a tour of the coastline along the former Georgia-Pacific mill site. The tour concluded with a visit to the City's 73-foot blue whale skeleton, which had been laid out on the pavement next of the wastewater treatment plant. See the full story in this week's Advocate-News. Tony Reed photo.See More
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