The Oregon Dynamite Incident (1970)As per the reports, one of the most famous cases of an exploding whale occurred in Florence, Oregon, when officials decided to use dynamite to dispose of a ...

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While no one has ever died from a whale ‘explosion’ they can cause massive damage and injury, like in 1970 when a whale carcass was blown up with dynamite in Oregon and blubber from the body crushed a ...

The idea of an exploding whale might seem like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller or a horror movie, but it’s a rare, real-life event that occurs when a dead whale’s body bursts due ...

During Whale Watch Week, rangers and volunteers with Oregon State Parks will be stationed at 15 sites along the coast daily ...

Oregon State Parks' Whale Watch Week wrapped up just before the new year. The winter migration lasts for a few more weeks for an estimated 19,000 gray whales.

Upward of 20,000 gray whales are expected to swim past Oregon’s shores over the next several weeks as part of their annual migration south to the warm calving lagoons near Baja, Mexico.

Winter whale watching returns to the Oregon coast this week. Oregon’s two official whale watch events – winter and spring – follow the migration of gray whales. In the winter, the whales ...

Just north of Depoe Bay, both volunteers and visitors flocked to this spot before the new year for Oregon State Parks' Whale Watch Week. Era Horton, a 16-year volunteer with Whale Watch Week ...