The whale “wrecked” for several days on a shoal in the Baltic Sea in the north of Germany. Before freeing herself, she found herself in the same situation in a nearby bay. With reference to the nature protection organization Greenpeace, this was written by the DPA agency on Saturday.
The humpback whale is now located in the Wismarer Bay, several tens of kilometers away from the first place of stranding.
For the first time, the whale got stuck on a sandbar near Lübeck, apparently on Monday night, and people tried to free it. On Wednesday, a small suction dredger failed to remove the hardened sand from the place where the cetacean was lying, on Thursday a stronger one arrived, which excavated a trough allowing the humpback whale to swim away. But it wasn’t enough.
“The whale has not changed its position in the shallow waters of the Bay of Wismar for a long time,” said the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Ministry of the Environment, according to Die Zeit. Specifically, there is a humpback whale near the uninhabited island of Walfisch near Wismar.
The original goal of the previous large-scale rescue operation was to guide the animal towards the straits between Germany and Denmark to find its way back to the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The conditions in the Baltic Sea are not suitable for large whales, these animals are not naturally at home here.
In order for the up to 15-meter and 20-ton cetacean to win, it must successfully reach the North Sea and then the home Atlantic.
