This 20 August 2014 video is about a lifeboat, tugging a drifting dead whale from the sea near Katwijk in the Netherlands to the beach near Scheveningen.
There, scientists of Naturalis museum investigated it today. It turned out to be a seventeen meter long adolescent male fin whale.
Most probably, the young whale died because of a collision with a ship; some of its vertebrae were crushed. Other possible causes of death: a killer whale attack; or a collision with a seawall.
See also here.
Dead fin whale beaches on Texel island: here.
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
I don’t have words …. sad!!
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Indeed. Ships should pay more attention to avoiding colisions with whales.
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Indeed … 😦
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