WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
A video clip, shown on Faroese Television on Tuesday (November 26), showed a
washed-up dead sperm whale explode, spraying entrails all over. The dead whale had been lying on the beach for two days after it got stuck in waters
Between the Faroe Islands' two biggest islands.On Tuesday, marine biologist Bjarni Mikkelsen was dispatched to cut it open. As he did so, the whale exploded - the explosion being the result of methane gas accumulating during decomposition.
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