Whale rescue

Whale rescue

Had a rather extraordinary experience yesterday. A big group of us were on a native plant survey walk at Mu'olea Point and we came across this ~~dolphin~~ whale stranded in a tide pool. Probably got stuck there when chasing a fish the night before during high tide. It was scraped up pretty badly and bleeding from several places, and obviously exhausted, but still alive.

After much collective effort, we managed to get her turned around and slid over some boards and stuff we could find around and got her back in the ocean. She swam very slowly at first back out into the open ocean, and then went to a spot where she was on top of the wave that rose up just outside so we could see her well, almost like she was looking back at us. Then 2 or 3 other dolphins came and joined her, which was very relieving because I was worried that a bleeding exhausted ~~dolphin~~ whale would be easy prey for a shark, but hopefully the others could protect her until she can recover some. Then they all swam away and she seemed to be moving pretty strongly. Needless to say, it was a truly wonderful, amazing experience I will never forget.

(BTW, that's me in the white shirt on the left.)

Update: While we originally thought this was a dolphin, it turned out to be a beaked whale, probably a Blainsville's beaked whale, a juvenile. They are very rare deep water creatures.

Posted: Mon - April 24, 2006 at 10:20 AM

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