stripercrazy
04-06-2010, 03:47 PM
There was a humpback whale washed up in East Hampton yesterday The Riverhead Foundation people say it's not going to make it.
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A juvenile humpback whale that stranded itself along Main Beach in East Hampton early Tuesday appears weak and underweight and probably can't be saved, officials said.
"There's not much we can do. The whale looks thin to us, and we think it will die," said Chuck Bowman, president of the marine mammal rescue program at the Riverhead Foundation.
Bowman said the whale's bulk - it likely weighs more than a ton - made it dangerous for rescuers to try to push it into deeper water and said his organization believed it was so weak that it would drown if moved off the beach.
He said the whale probably became separated from its mother and described the scenario as "really sad."
Humpbacks, which are endangered, like to feed in the waters off New England in the summer and have been seen off Long Island before, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Riverhead Foundation, a marine research and preservation organization.
Village Police Officer Christopher Jack first spotted the whale about 300 yards off the beach at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, providing "a good start to the morning," he said.
But when he returned to the area about 45 minutes later, the young...
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A juvenile humpback whale that stranded itself along Main Beach in East Hampton early Tuesday appears weak and underweight and probably can't be saved, officials said.
"There's not much we can do. The whale looks thin to us, and we think it will die," said Chuck Bowman, president of the marine mammal rescue program at the Riverhead Foundation.
Bowman said the whale's bulk - it likely weighs more than a ton - made it dangerous for rescuers to try to push it into deeper water and said his organization believed it was so weak that it would drown if moved off the beach.
He said the whale probably became separated from its mother and described the scenario as "really sad."
Humpbacks, which are endangered, like to feed in the waters off New England in the summer and have been seen off Long Island before, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Riverhead Foundation, a marine research and preservation organization.
Village Police Officer Christopher Jack first spotted the whale about 300 yards off the beach at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, providing "a good start to the morning," he said.
But when he returned to the area about 45 minutes later, the young...
http://www.newsdaycompany.com/