PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Mark Swingle (left), director of research and conservation for the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, and Bernard Jackson, an engineering equipment operator, attempts to tie a heavy-duty line to a dead 45-foot sei whale here Aug. 22, 2014. The whale, which was being pulled onshore for a necropsy, spent a week swimming in the Elizabeth River’s Southern Branch and eventual perished. Through its mandate of keeping the federal navigation channels clear of damaging debris, the Norfolk District, Army Corps of Engineers, assisted in the necropsy by using heavy equipmen
PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Mark Swingle (left), director of research and conservation for the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, and Bernard Jackson, an engineering equipment operator, attempts to tie a heavy-duty line to a dead 45-foot sei whale here Aug. 22, 2014. The whale, which was being pulled onshore for a necropsy, spent a week swimming in the Elizabeth River’s Southern Branch and eventual perished. Through its mandate of keeping the federal navigation channels clear of damaging debris, the Norfolk District, Army Corps of Engineers, assisted in the necropsy by using heavy equipment and burying the remains at its Craney Island facility. ( Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood) 140822-A-OI229-015 by norfolkdistrict
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