I think it has to do with the rotting fat in their body - it kind of attaches itself to your skin, so you smell it (and you smell...) for days afterwards (kind of like when you touch raw garlic).
Tintenfisch;84299 said:MUCH worse. It's a cloying, sickening, sweet stench that resembles nothing else I have ever encountered.
It's better than cigarette smokeMatt Jones;84309 said:I can confirm this. Decomposing whale is the worst smell in the world...
monty;92401 said:but I didn't have time to go get the experience, and perhaps that's just as well. Apparently they had problems with people using hacksaws and hammers to try to steal the teeth, some of whom may be in deep trouble, as trade in cetacean parts is apparently some sort of major crime, and people took photos of the vandals.
It is unlawful - Sec. 102 (2) (A) for any person or vessel or other conveyance to take any marine mammal in waters or on lands under the jurisdiction of the United States; or
(3) for any person, with respect to any marine mammal taken in violation of this title, to posses that mammal or any product from that mammal;
Steve O'Shea;83882 said:It was a wet, cold and miserable day .....