Posts Tagged ‘Fin whale’
Pilot Whale Beached at Indian River Inlet Dies
Images courtesy Sheri Marie Finazzo Suzanne Thurman from the MERR Institute says the juvenile short-finned pilot whale that beached itself on Monday on the north side of the Indian River Inlet has died. She was rolling around in the surf where rocks were cutting open her wounds, Thurman says, and was also taking in water.…
Read MoreUPDATED: Fin Whale Beached North of Indian River Inlet
Sunday morning a fin whale beached on the shore just north of the Indian River Inlet. Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute (MERR) officials are investigating but tell the Talk of Delmarva that it’s about 50′ 3” long and severely emaciated and they are doing what they can to minimize its suffering. Additional information from…
Read MoreUPDATED: Fin Whale Dies in Delaware Bay off Cape Henlopen, Officials Investigate and Bury Carcass
UPDATED 8/29/21 – Despite best efforts to assist the 57’ young male fin whale that stranded on a sandbar on thebayside of the Point at Cape Henlopen State Park, the whale ultimately beached itself for thefinal time on the oceanside of the Point on the evening of Thursday, August 26th. The whaledied on its own…
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