Students and volunteers have been busy dissecting a Blue Whale that washed up on a Curry Co. beach Nov. 2. The goal is to remove the large mammal’s skeleton so it can be displayed at the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. The stripped away blubber is being burned and buried on Ophir Beach about seven miles north of Gold Beach. Officials with the OSU Marine Mammal Institute at the HMSC in Newport say this is the first Blue Whale to wash up on an Oregon beach in more than a century. A necropsy has also been performed in an attempt to discover how the 78-foot long whale died.
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