Could've been a nice article. But it said "fish" and "sharks" far too often and .. well. I doubt that this ever happened if you suck at the basics. Most offensive:
Matthews was only half-way done: he still had to transport the two beluga whales from Mexico City — a task that ended up being more logistically challenging than the first. Though he’d been warned by the aquarium that the whales were “distressed, and in subpar conditions,” he wasn’t prepared for what he found.
“The tank was literally in the center of a roller coaster, in the middle of an amusement park,” he says. “They were put in the tanks when they were 6 feet long, and at the time of transfer, they were 15 feet long. I thought, how the hell am I getting these sharks out of this park?"
Author here. That quote should read "...how the hell am I getting these [whales] out of this park?" Thanks for catching that.
I went through and read the rest of the article to double check for other mix-ups, but this was the only one I found. Whale sharks are technically classified as "fish," hence my use of the word to refer to them throughout. Thanks for reading!
I just scanned the article, it seems correct now in its use of shark/fish/whale/etc designators.
It's a confusing situation with both belugas (who are whales, and therefore mammals, and not fish despite their appearance) and whale-sharks (who are sharks, and therefore fish, but not related to whales despite their name). Add to that things like fish-tanks and so on, and you got a lot of room for confusion, so it pays to double-check everything!
Note that he hired a team of veterinarians. Seems like the logistics expert stuck to his area of expertise and was wise enough to let other experts handle their part.
I don't want to sound like an ass, but you do realize that most people would describe a whale as a 'big fish', right? And that 'cetacean' is not in most people's vocabulary?
Matthews was only half-way done: he still had to transport the two beluga whales from Mexico City — a task that ended up being more logistically challenging than the first. Though he’d been warned by the aquarium that the whales were “distressed, and in subpar conditions,” he wasn’t prepared for what he found.
“The tank was literally in the center of a roller coaster, in the middle of an amusement park,” he says. “They were put in the tanks when they were 6 feet long, and at the time of transfer, they were 15 feet long. I thought, how the hell am I getting these sharks out of this park?"