PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A dead whale buried on a Rhode Island beach over the weekend just won't go away.
The 30-foot humpback washed into shallow water near shore June 14 and was buried in a six-foot hole at low tide on Saturday.
Ron Bogle, manager of the private Briggs Beach, says that wasn't deep enough. He found the whale almost completely out of the ground Monday morning.
Last week, the whale was in two to five feet of water and couldn't be buried until it was on solid ground. Workers thought they had a chance to bury it during Saturday's low tide. But they couldn't dig a deeper hole because water kept filling in.
Bogle says the next step is to dig a hole farther inland and push the whale into it with a bulldozer.
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