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The other day, something spectacular came about on our Hayling Island. There was a 8 metre long whale beached on some mudflats just to the north of Hayling in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Unfortunately, the whale had suffered from severe dehydration, which resulted in it suffering from renal failure, when it became immobilized on Friday night.
There was a super rescue scheme, where humans tried bravely to save the Northern Bottlenose whale’s life. At one point the trained medics felt that the had to issue a lethal injection to put the whale to sleep. Still, the whale then swam out to sea again. Regrettably, it came back towards the coast again and was then beached for a second and terminative time.
The medical officers decided that the only compassionate thing to do would be to issue the lethal injection, which they did on Friday morning. They used Immobilon, which was a very quick acting and fatal strength of anaesthetic.
If the mammal wasn’t put to sleep, the experts believe that it would have taken about 2 further days for the creature to die, during which it would have remained sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the 6 metric ton mammalian, which is normally found about 3000 miles away, finished up here on Hayling Island, but it is another wonderful story that Hampshire’s Hayling Island 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.
