Young humpback towed off sandbar in first stranding of an early whale season

Young humpback towed off sandbar in first stranding of an early whale season

The 9.5-metre, 12-tonne sub-adult is swimming freely in a lake near Forster, but is yet to find its way back to the ocean.

Rescuers save stranded whale from sandbar in Australia river

AUSTRALIA - Rescuers jumped in to save a whale that swam into a river in coastal Australia and got stranded on a sandbar, unable to move itself. Video from Tuesday shows rescuers with Sea World Foundation helping NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), the Organization for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA) and the Forster Dive Centre, to save the whale.WATCH: COUPLE SAVES SEA TURTLE ENTANGLED IN FISHING NET IN MAL…