Oh, the Huge Manatee! What a delightfully awful pun.
Naturally this led me to read up a bit on the Hindenburg disaster:
The disaster is remembered partly because of extraordinary newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison’s recorded radio witness report from the landing field. The crush of journalists was in response to a heavy publicity push about the first trans-Atlantic Zeppelin passenger flight to the US of the year. (The ship had already made one round trip from Germany to Brazil that year.) Morrison’s recording was not broadcast until the next day. Parts of his report were later dubbed onto the newsreel footage (giving an incorrect impression to some modern eyes accustomed to live television that the words and film had always been together). Morrison’s broadcast remains one of the most famous in history — his plaintive words “Oh, the humanity!” resonate with the impact of the disaster.Herbert Morrison’s famous words should be understood in the context of the broadcast, in which he had repeatedly referred to the large team of people on the field, engaged in landing the airship, as a “mass of humanity.” He used the phrase when it became clear that the burning wreckage was going to settle onto the ground, and that the people underneath would probably not have time to escape it. Although there is some speculation as to whether his actual words were “Oh, the humanity” or “all the humanity”, (the radio recording is unclear) it was most likely “Oh, the humanity” as the complete sentence is “Oh, the humanity and all the passengers…”