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Drama in the Baltic Sea Humpback whale is stuck again
The whole of Germany is excited about him: The humpback whale from Timmendorfer Strand is now stuck in another place after being released.
Source: Lisa Klemens, German Oceanographic Museum
from Sebastian Fuhrman and Nele Balgo
As soon as he is free, nothing works anymore!
The humpback whale that was released off Timmendorfer Strand has stranded again. The marine mammal is now lying on a sandbank in the Wismar Bay, as Greenpeace RTL confirmed. This is what the rescuers want to do now.
Humpback whale gets free and gets stuck again
“After he was able to free himself from his predicament, the whale was spotted again today at noon in Wismar Bay near the island of Walfisch,” confirmed a spokesman for the Schwerin Ministry of the Environment.
In addition to the water police from Wismar and Rostock, employees from the German Oceanographic Museum, the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research and the nature conservation organization Greenpeace were deployed on the water and on land to assess the situation and help in an emergency.
The water police had been driving along the coast since early morning looking for the whale. Another police boat and Greenpeace were also involved in the search on Saturday with two boats, said a spokeswoman for the dpa.
Animal freed itself in front of Timmendorfer Strand
The 12 to 15 meter long marine mammal was discovered on a sandbank off Timmendorfer Strand on Monday morning (March 23rd). After days of efforts by numerous helpers, the animal freed itself from the sandbank on Friday night through a channel dug out by an excavator. Now he's in trouble again.
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This is what the whale rescuers want to do now
Dr. Joseph Schnitzler is a marine biologist at the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research. He has been involved in saving the whale since Monday. He says to RTL: “It's not as hopeless as in Niendorf. We'll let him rest the night and see tomorrow.”
On Timmendorf Beach, the marine mammal, which weighed several tons, was surrounded by a sandbank and there was no way out for the animal. “Here it’s at the highest point on a sandbar and it’s open all around it.” Accordingly, the hope is that the whale can free itself this time. Schnitzler: “It’s impossible to say why he got stranded again.”
“If the animal has not freed itself by tomorrow, the experts on site will try to gently nudge the whale and move it towards deeper water,” said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Environment Minister Till Backhaus (SPD) in the evening. (with dpa)
Sources used: dpa, own RTL research
