On April 29, 2026, the humpback whale recovered from a shallow bay off Wismar was being transported in direction of the North Sea in a flooded cargo ship simply earlier than the Danish border in Fehmarn, Germany.
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BERLIN (AP) — A humpback whale discovered useless this week off a Danish island has been recognized because the animal launched two weeks in the past in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly changing into stranded off Germany’s Baltic Coastline, Danish authorities mentioned Saturday.
The useless whale washed up on Thursday simply off the small island of Anholt within the Kattegat, the broad strait between Denmark and Sweden that connects the Baltic Sea to the North Sea. The location is south of the situation the place the whale that gained the nicknames “Timmy” and “Hope” was launched on Could 2 after being transported towards the North Sea in a particular barge.
“It can now be confirmed that the stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same whale that was previously stranded in Germany and was the subject of rescue attempts,” Jane Hansen, head of division on the Danish Environmental Safety Company, mentioned in an emailed assertion.
She added that circumstances on Saturday made it attainable for a Danish Nature Company worker to find and retrieve a monitoring gadget that was nonetheless mounted to the whale’s again, and “the position and appearance of the device confirm that this is the same whale that had previously been observed and handled in German waters.”
