Walk on the beach, picking up precious precious ambergris

An English couple are extremely happy to know that the "rock" they picked up on the beach a few days ago was a ambergris, which could cost up to £ 50,000 (equivalent to nearly 1, 7 billion VND.

Gary and Angela Williams, from Overton, Lancashire, are walking on Middleton Sands beach near Morecambe Bay on April 10 when they suddenly smell an unpleasant odor.

At first, 48-year-old Gary thought that the fish's body had washed up on the beach but when he tracked that rotten smell, they discovered a stone with a rugby ball, drifting into the area of ​​few people walking.

Having read and learned about ambergris in newspapers, Gary was certain that the smelly stone he and his wife found were priceless sea frankincense of sperm whales. The couple wrapped it with a towel and brought it home in extreme joy.

The ambergris that Gary and his wife picked up cost up to £ 50,000.

The ambergris that Gary and Angela found weighed 1.57kg, only half the volume of a previously discovered block near Morecambe Bay three years ago, costing up to £ 120,000.

"It washed up in the low-traffic area of ​​the beach. It smelled too terrible, like the smell of dead fish and the smell of animal manure," Gary described the moment when the couple found ambergris. .

"It's like a hard rubber ball, like a wax candle. When I touch it, it's like wax sticking to the end of my finger , " Gary said. The engineer also added that if it really is the quality of the material he wants, they will have a long way to deal with those who want to buy it.

Mr. Gary was happy to hold ambergris in his hand.

Currently, the couple is consulting with experts in France and New Zealand before deciding to offer the price as well as preserving the priceless gold department of the sea.

Previously, in 2013, a 2.7 kg heavy ambergris also drifted into Morecambe, evaluated by experts at around £ 120,000. At the end of September 2015, a smaller, 1.1kg block was also found at Anglesey Beach, Wales, sold for £ 11,000 during an auction in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Dubbed the floating gold of the sea , ambergris has a very high value and is often used to produce perfumes. Nowadays, due to the rare and expensive, people often use synthetic to create perfume, and only use ambergris to produce high-grade perfumes.

Explaining the expensive of ambergris, many scientists say it takes many years to form in the gut of sperm whales, moreover, only the most giant fish in the ocean can "produce " these gold lumps, because it eats other animals such as squid, octopus . Some parts of these species are not digested, accumulate in the intestine and form ambergris.

Ambergris should not vomit from the mouth but be excreted with the stool.

However, many people still cannot explain exactly the process of forming ambergris in sperm whale gut. Unlike many people think, ambergris cannot vomit from the mouth but be excreted along with the stool.

After the sperm whale is dead or excreted, the ambergris will float on the sea for a long time and then drift to the shore, long-term exposure to the sun will turn into a smooth gray stone.