6 pilot whales dead after beaching in Cape Breton; 10 others saved

[inanna]

Source: CBC News

Posted: Aug 04, 2015 4:34 PM AT

Sixteen pilot whales beached on a shore near Judique, Cape Breton, Tuesday morning, sparking a rescue effort involving about 20 people.

Andrew Reid with the Marine Animal Response Society said 10 of the whales were pushed into deeper water and survived. Six others died.

Local resident Maggie MacIntyre said people gathered at the beach early in the morning for the rescue effort.

"There were between one and four people surrounding each whale," she said.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/6-pilot-whales-dead-after-beaching-in-cape-breton-10-others-saved-1.3179043?cmp=rss

[1monster]

1. I used to work for a marine park that would rescue beached whales. Quite often,

the whales were pilot whales. Those whales would usually die after a few days or a week or so. A necropsy would usually show some kind of underlying health problem.

Once in a while, there would be a success story and the recovered whale would be released back into the wild. That park was sold and resold and eventually morphed into something else altogether and no longer does marine rescues. :/