We all pine for the days when a 40 year old B-List celebrity could wander through the carcass of a giant dead fish. One day, with good fortune and God's help, that day will come. Till then, no whining.
Dave actually answered this on the crew board . . . I'll see if I can go find it.
Um, Mike, Are you okay? If you really feel left out I am sure we could all band together and dredge up a carcass or 2 for you to wander through. Just trying to help out
No, They never did it. Because the link things are disabled I will repost what dave said. It was a post he made this year so the info is current.
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About that whale. Well, timing is everything with dead whales. When we first started researching the show, we knew this would make a good segment, so the idea was turned into Discovery with a stack of about 100 other before we even aired. When the main title sequence was produced at the network, someone just said "That's a good one and weird one!" and of course they were correct, and threw it in the open of the show.
But we've been chasing it ever since. One turned up in California early on, but we were in St. Louis or somewhere... Months later we were alerted to one in Oregon and all ready to go. The scientists we were going to out with were worried about decay and birds destroying it before our arrival so they hired the local "guy with bulldozer" to bury it, forgetting to tell him not to tear it apart in the process...intact would be the only impressive way to shoot it.
Then last September we were in Maine with a couple of thousand slime eels when when turned up in Dutch Harbor AK. We could not get there either. Until this January. We were told, despite my skepticism, that it was still intact, having been frozen all winter. It sounded great, but the biologist we were going to go out with was not in the area, nor could he get there until we arrived. But he was assured by locals it was out of harms way across the bay.
The day after we arrived on Unalaska, Doug and I went to scout it. I could not wait! I thought this would be the center piece of our Alaska trip.
