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The other week,an astonishing affair occurred on little old Hayling Island. There was a 8 metre long whale beached on some of the mudflats just north of Hayling in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Upsettingly, the Northern Bottlenose had experienced severe dehydration, which resulted in it suffering from kidney failure, when it became cornered on Saturday night.
There was a great rescue scheme, where people attempted valiently to save the whale’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the stupefying creature to sleep with a lethal injection. Yet, the whale then floated out to sea once again. Regrettably, it came back towards the coast again and was beached for a 2nd and final time.
The medics concluded 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 fast and lethal strength of anaesthetic.
If the mammal was not 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 six tonne mammalian, which is ordinarily 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.
