“If the water continues to rise, if a miracle happens with the whale, it will be a great luck, a resurrection,” Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state environment minister Till Backhaus told reporters on Sunday.
According to the newspaper Bild, the prospects for Timmy are theoretically favorable. Contrary to Sunday’s forecast, the water level in Poel Bay did not drop on Monday, but on the contrary, it is rising and should reach a level of almost 40 centimeters above the normal level on Tuesday.
However, the enthusiasm of everyone who is anxiously following the fate of the stranded whale is moderated by the press spokesman of the ministry, Claus Tantzen. “That’s not enough. Timmy is lying in a 60-centimeter-deep muddy shallow. The water is not deep enough for him to have enough buoyancy to swim freely,” Bild quoted a spokesman as saying.
According to the original plans, attempts to save the unfortunate whale should have been abandoned and Timmy left to die.
However, Minister Backhaus came up with a new rescue plan: transport the whale to the North Sea on a specialized catamaran. We are talking about the means and possibilities of rescue. Among other things, a medical examination is needed to see if the whale has any chance of survival. The examination is scheduled for Tuesday. However, the whale is in poor health and suffering.
Timmy, as the whale came to be nicknamed, got stuck in three different places. First at the city of Timmendorfer Strand on the night of March 23. After a few days, the whale was freed and Timmy sailed into deeper waters. But later the whale got stuck again, this time near Wismar. After two days, thanks to the rise in sea level, the whale was able to sail away again. Timmy got stuck for the third time on Tuesday near the island of Poel.
