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Twelve days later, 11 volunteers were dropped off by the Coast Guard Cutter Sedge. In thirty-one hours of gruesome, smelly, hard work the whale was butchered and cut onto pieces small enough to drag above the high tide line. Two weeks later, at the end of July, a third expedition aboard the landing craft Glacier returned to the rotting bones. The bones were then transported to a field above Homer where they were left to decompose for two full years. |
