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Whale Stranded in the Baltic Sea Swims Free Again. It Still Faces a Tough Task
The 12-15 meter whale was freed near Wismar after a rescue at Timmendorfer Strand and must swim hundreds of kilometers through the North Sea to reach the Atlantic.
- On Monday, a humpback whale measuring 12 to 15 meters long swam free near the German port of Wismar, where it had been trapped since the weekend. No new sightings were reported on Tuesday morning.
- The apparently exhausted animal had been stuck since the weekend, following a successful rescue effort last week at Timmendorfer Strand that used an excavator to free it from an underwater sandbank.
- Officials decided against attaching a tracker because the whale's skin remains in poor condition after prolonged exposure to the Baltic Sea's low salt concentration. The reason for its initial entry remains unclear.
- Burkard Baschek, scientific director of the Ocean Museum Germany, told ZDF that escorting the whale is impractical, stating "we can only hope that it will make it under its own steam" as experts seek to avoid another rescue attempt.
- The whale remains far from its natural habitat, potentially having lost its way while chasing herring, and now faces a daunting journey to the Atlantic Ocean through the North Sea with little external support.
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BERLIN — A stranded humpback whale in Germany's Baltic Sea looks weaker, and experts fear it won't be able to find its way back to the Atlantic despite several attempts at its rescue.
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Marine police found that the cetacean had disappeared from Wismar Bay where "Timmy" had been since Saturday.
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Stranded whale frees itself again off German coast and disappears
A humpback whale struggling in shallow waters off Germany's northern Baltic Sea coast has freed itself for a third time and has now disappeared, a police spokesman told AFP Tuesday.
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