US EditionWhale swims to freedom after days stranded on German beach
Rescuers used excavators, boats, and a suction dredger over several days to free a 10-metre humpback whale stranded on a Baltic sandbank, marine experts said.
- On Friday, a 12–15m humpback whale successfully swam free from a sandbank near Timmendorfer Strand, Germany, after rescue teams deployed two excavators to dredge an escape channel.
- Stranded since Monday, the whale remained trapped for days despite multiple intervention attempts using suction dredgers and boat-generated waves to move the animal.
- On Thursday, rescuers deployed two excavators to dredge a deep channel; Marine Biologist Robert Marc Lehmann reported the whale "gathered its strength" and "freed itself by its own efforts."
- Stephanie Gross from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research confirmed the whale now swims in shallow waters about 300m off the coast, escorted by several boats.
- The humpback faces a perilous journey toward the Atlantic Ocean, as vet Jan Hermann cautioned the animal's navigation system may struggle with the complex route past Denmark and the North Sea.
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Independent EspañolBERLIN (AP) — A whale that had been stranded in shallow water for days in a Baltic Sea resort in Germany managed to free itself from a sand bank during the night after a last rescue attempt. But not yet...
Until Friday morning, Germany was living with the story of a humpback whale stranded on the Baltic coast. The young male appeared on Monday near the Timmendorfer Strand resort and was unable to get away. The rescue operation aroused enormous interest, the media followed it online, and in the last few hours, good news came: The approximately 20-ton animal apparently freed itself during the night thanks to the rising water level and reached the op…
A humpback whale stranded on a sand dune at Timmendorfer Beach in northern Germany on Monday. Intensive efforts to rescue it lasted several days, but at night it managed to swim into the Bay of Lübeck, the German news agency dpa reports.
The whale was stranded on the German Baltic coast for several days.
After day-long rescue attempts, the whale is released from Niendorf. A channel created by excavators has supported it. But the rescue operation is not over yet.
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