Time runs out for whales lying stranded on beach
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March 25, 2013, Monday
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VOLUNTEERS were desperately trying to save a whale yesterday at Noordhoek beach near Cape Town in South Africa.
Six of the 19 pilot whales stranded on the beach have died and authorities say they may have to euthanize the others.
Police and other workers were hosing down the whales that were still alive in the hope of getting them back into the water.
A spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute said the whales had washed up on the beach yesterday morning.
"Seven are in poor health," he said. "We are still trying our best to save them, but those that can't be saved will be humanely euthanized."
In 2009, authorities in the Cape Town area removed the carcasses of 55 whales that beached themselves and had to be shot despite the frantic rescue efforts of hundreds of volunteers.
Six of the 19 pilot whales stranded on the beach have died and authorities say they may have to euthanize the others.
Police and other workers were hosing down the whales that were still alive in the hope of getting them back into the water.
A spokesman for the National Sea Rescue Institute said the whales had washed up on the beach yesterday morning.
"Seven are in poor health," he said. "We are still trying our best to save them, but those that can't be saved will be humanely euthanized."
In 2009, authorities in the Cape Town area removed the carcasses of 55 whales that beached themselves and had to be shot despite the frantic rescue efforts of hundreds of volunteers.
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