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The other week,an astonishing affair occurred on our Hayling Island. There was a 8 metre long whale beached on some mudflats just north of Hayling in the adjoinging Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Regrettably, the Northern Bottlenose whale had suffered from severe dehydration, which meant it was suffering from kidney failure, when it became pinned down on Wednesday night.
There was a great rescue scheme, where humans attempted tirelessly to salvage the whale’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the formidable mammal to sleep with a lethal injection. But, the whale then swam out to sea again. Regrettably, it came back towards the coast again and was then beached for a 2nd and last time.
The medics decided that the only compassionate thing to do would be to supply 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 was not put to sleep, the experts believe that it would have taken about 2 further days for the whale to die, during which it would have remained sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the 6 metric ton mammal, which is usually 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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