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The other day, something stupefying took place on Hayling Island. an 8 m long whale beached on some of the mudflats just to the north of Hayling in the adjoinging Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Tragically, the Northern Bottlenose whale had suffered from severe dehydration, which resulted in it suffering from kidney failure, when it became pinned down on Monday night.
There was a great rescue system, where people tried valiently 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 stupefying mammal to sleep with a lethal injection. But, the whale then drifted out to sea over again. Regrettably, it came back towards the harbor again and was then beached for a 2nd and last time.
The medical team decided that the only caring thing to do would be to supply 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 weren’t put to sleep, the experts believe that it would have taken about two further days for the animal to die, during which it would have been sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the 6 metric ton mammalian, which is ordinarily found about 3000 miles away, finished 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.
