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Whale News: What's
happening with #2030?
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After three years and countless staff and volunteer
hours, the whale skeleton is fully assembled and hanging in the
atrium of the new museum. Theatrical riggers I.
Weiss took just two and a half days to move the completed skeleton
into the building and suspend it permanently in its new home. The
whale will be highly visible from many vantage points inside and
outside the museum.
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A volunteer crew
(left) removes the greenhouse
structure in preparation for the move to the new museum. Despite less-than-ideal
weather, spirits are high. This was the fifth and final massive volunteer
effort of the right whale project. Thanks volunteers, we couldn't
have done it without you! |
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Paul Strom supervises the crew
of riggers from I. Weiss (right)
as they prepare to move the trestle supporting the rib cage. The
skull and tail have already been moved into the museum at this point.
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| Above: As workers disassemble
the trestle that had supported the rib section for over a year, the
riggers use chainfalls to lift the completed section into place. Documentary
filmmaker David Brown (seen in photo at
left) captures the event for a film he is
making about the life and death of right whale #2030. |
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At left: PRI staff and a crack team of
volunteers quickly attach the scapulae and flippers to the thoracic
(rib) section of the whale moments before it is hoisted. |
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| Above: PRI staff with the I. Weiss crew
that brought the whale in: (left to right) Will Ober (PRI), Dan Dietrich,
Andrea Dohar, Lawrence Clayton, Jamie Allspaugh, Valerie Furey (PRI),
and Paul Strom. |
| page last updated
11/20/02 |
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