When a Whale Dies, The Story Has Just Begun

By Kevin Zelnio, on October 8th, 2011 5 comments   Art, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   animation, Sharon Shattuck, video, Whale Fall  

A great film about a whale fall by Sharon Shattuck.

Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo.

5 comments to When a Whale Dies, The Story Has Just Begun

• Dr_Bik

  October 8, 2011 at 10:02 · Reply

  Although the real thing is far less cutsey –
  Before: http://twitpic.com/6x14gh
  After: http://twitpic.com/6x158m

  @adrg1 and @BahaNick prepare carcasses for scientific whale fall experiments

• Kate

  October 8, 2011 at 11:00 · Reply

  Very clever video

• Aeolius

  October 8, 2011 at 12:28 · Reply

  That was quite unique.

  That being said, I wish ORCA’s eye-in0the-sea carcass-cam has been a permanent project. It was easily one of the most interesting webcams I followed with regularity.

• Karen James

  October 9, 2011 at 22:21 · Reply

  Did someone commission her to make this film… perhaps to satisfy an NSF “Broader Impacts” criterion? :D

• Karen James

  October 9, 2011 at 22:29 · Reply

  I just went over to Vimeo and saw that the video is an accompaniment to the Radiolab episode “Loops”.