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The other day,an astonishing event came about on our Hayling Island. an 8 m long whale beached on some of the mudflats just to the north of Hayling in the adjoinging Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Regrettably, the whale had suffered from severe dehydration, which meant it was suffering from kidney failure, when it became entangled on Tuesday night.
There was a super rescue scheme, where humans attempted valiently to preserve the Northern Bottlenose whale’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the formidable creature to sleep with a lethal injection. Yet, the whale then swam out to sea over again. Unluckily, it came back towards the harbor again and was beached for a second and last time.
The trained vets determined that the only caring thing to do would be to issue the lethal injection, which they did on Friday morning. They used Immobilon, which was a very quick acting and fatal strength of anaesthetic.
If the mammal wasn’t put to sleep, the experts believe that it would have taken about two further days for the animal to die, during which it would have been sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the 6 metric ton mammal, which is commonly found about 3000 miles away, ended up here on Hayling Island, but it is another wonderful story that Hayling brings to its history.
There were around a dozen firefighters, police, coastguard personnel as well as members of the Hayling Island harvour lifeboat staff involved in the attempt.
