DESPERATE whale rescuers have
pulled off a miracle by saving the largest creature that ever lived from
perishing on a beach.
PUBLISHED: 16:48, Thu, Feb
4, 2016 | UPDATED: 16:58, Thu, Feb 4, 2016
Over nine tense hours villagers
fought to heave the 40 ft blue whale back into the seas as its life ebbed with
the tide.
As the waves rippled over the
young whale’s body, the men waded up to their chests to give the dying sea
mammal a chance of survival with their herculean efforts.
Miraculously, when all looked
lost, a rope was tied around the 25-ton whale and it was slowly hauled back to
deeper water off India’s Arabian Sea coastline by two fishing trawlers.
Even then, there was more drama
as the rope twice snapped before, at the third attempt, the whale was finally
towed to safety.
The 25-ton whale was hauled back
to deeper water off India’s Arabian Sea coastline
The rescue is believed to be the
first time that a blue whale, the largest creature that has ever existed, has
been saved after beaching.
Its plight is the latest in an
incredible spate of whale strandings in both the North Sea and the Arabian Sea.
There seems to be nothing to
connect the phenomena, but zoologists are becoming increasingly concerned over
whether man-made impacts are driving the whales closer to dangerous shallow
waters.
The blue whale rescue was carried
out on Dapoli Beach in India’s Ratnagiri district, 250 miles south of Mumbai
this week.
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