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Friday, May 29th, 2009

Whale Becomes Frozen on Hayling IslandHayling Island Has Got a WhaleYou Won’t Believe the Size of the Catch on HaylingWhaley Sorry to See You

Last Wednesday,an amazing thing occurred on Hayling Island. an 8 m long whale beached on some of the mudflats just to the north of Hayling in the neighbouring Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.

Upsettingly, the whale had experienced severe dehydration, which resulted in it suffering from renal failure, when it became confined on Tuesday night.

There was a great rescue system, where humans tried tirelessly to salvage the Northern Bottlenose whale’s life. At one point the trained medics felt that the had to issue a lethal injection to put the whale to sleep. However, the whale then swam out to sea over again. Alas, it came back towards the coast again and was beached for a second and final time.

The medical officers decided that the only caring thing to do would be to supply the lethal injection, which they did on Friday morning. They used Immobilon, which was a very prompt 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 creature to die, during which it would have been sick and distressed.

It seemed bizarre that the 6 tonne mammal, which is ordinarily found about 3000 miles away, ended up here on Hayling Island, but it is another wonderful story that this south coast little island, called 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.

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