Diver fishes out meter-sized fin whale bone from Oosterschelde

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A diver from Breda has recovered a fin whale bone of almost three meters long from the bottom of the Oosterschelde. The experienced diver and ecologist Bas van der Sanden initially thought he had stumbled upon a large piece of wood. "Then I started to realize: this is not wood, this is bone," he says on Omroep Zeeland. He quickly saw that it had to be a lower jaw of a fin whale. How the fin whale bone ended up on the bottom of the Oosterschelde …

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At first, diver Bas van der Sanden from Breda thought he saw a piece of wood when he recently dived in the Oosterschelde. But he didn't really like the colour. He decided to swim past his find and noticed that it must be a very large piece of wood. "Halfway through I started to realise: this isn't wood, this is bone!" He soon realised that the piece of bone, measuring around 2.70 metres long, belonged to a fin whale. Most divers can't easily ret…