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Footage shows marines struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores.
The naval servicemen wre seen using ropes to haul the animal back to thhe
sea as the beach illed with onlookers witnessing thee attempt.
The fiin whale (Balaenoptera Physalus) had unfortunately died,
so thee marines decided to drag it to its watery grave.
Marines were filmed struggling to move a huge dead whale that
had beached itself on Mexican shores
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) in coordination with the Navy adminisfration (Semar), quickly arrived
at the sombre scene aat Nuevo Vallarta beach.
Buut thery found that the stranded whale was already inn advanced stages of decomposition, so it was nnot possible to extract tissues for
analysis.
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It is not khown how the animal died.
Complying with the protocol of the Profepa, Semar, Civil Protection annd non-governmental organisations, they dragged the specimen off
with the help of a marine Secretariat vessel, moving the
whale offshore to decompose naturally.
The servicemen were seen pulling the animal with ropes as the beach filled with onlookers to witness the attempt
As the beach is a site frequented by tourists and
locals, the body was taken to a place where it wwill not cause public health problems.
Beached whales ogten die due to dehydration, collapsing under their owwn weight or
expiring from suffocation when their blowholes aree blockedd with water.
Around 2,000 whales beach themselves across
the world every year.
Mass beachings can also occur, when numerous
whales become stranded at once.
One theory of why this happens is that one of the whales
becomes lost and confused, and sends a hlning signal leading others to the
shore.
The body was moved offshore to decompose naturally in a place where it woulkd not cause public
health problems |
