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Depending on the circumstances a number of licences need to be granted before a whale can be moved and disposed of, including from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).
Many are taken to landfill sites, such as the Skegness whale which was taken to Winterton, in North Lincolnshire. Others are disposed through incineration or rendering.
There is film footage from 1970 of a whale in Florence, Oregon, in the United States, being disposed of by explosion.
"We don't do that in the UK and we don't advise that either, because you would be left with bits of whale over the beach which you've still got to clean up," said Mr Deaville.
However, dead whales can explode naturally, such as when a sperm whale was being transported to a research centre in Tainan, Taiwan, in 2004.
"That actually exploded en route because of the gases building up inside," said Mr Deaville.
"How long it would take [for a whale to explode] we just don't know. It would depend on a lot of factors."
This is a link to the YouTube film - classic!
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