Whale stranded on a beach in Finistère returned to sea

Monitoring by firefighters and volunteers from the Sea Shepherd association since Monday, this Rorqual “was able to take advantage of the basin and channel” dug in the sand to return to the sea, according to the prefect’s office.

Le Monde with AFP

The Rorqual who had failed on Monday on a Ploéven beach was able to go back to sea during the night following a rescue operation, we learned from the Finistère prefecture on Tuesday, September 20.

Monitoring by firefighters and volunteers from the Sea Shepherd association, this whale “was able to take advantage of the basin and the channel” dug in the sand to return to the sea, according to the prefect’s office.

We continue and we wait for the high tide 🤞 https://t.co/cpehvgaue3

– seashepherdfran (@sea shepherd France)

A “miraculous rescue, the Rorqual is distributed”, could be read on the account Twitter by Sea Shepherd France in the night.

“We helped him and he understood it! He put all his energy to leave and, with our help, he got there, it was magnificent!”

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Discovered Monday morning by walkers, this “12-meter young Rorqual” was “just skinny, without a sign of injuries,” described on Monday at the France-Presse Bernard Martin agency, volunteer of the national straat network ( Rne).

/Media reports.