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Last Tuesday,an awe-inspiring affair passed off on our Hayling Island. an 8 m long Northern Bottlenose whale beached on one of the mudflats just north of Hayling in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Regrettably, the Northern Bottlenose had gone through severe dehydration, which caused it to be suffering from renal failure, when it became cornered on Saturday night.
There was a great saving system, where people attempted bravely to preserve the Northern Bottlenose whale’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the expansive mammal to sleep with a lethal injection. But, the whale then drifted out to sea for one last time. Regrettably, it came back towards the coast again and was beached for a second and final time.
The medical officers 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 rapid 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 been sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the six metric ton mammal, which is commonly found about 3000 miles away, ended 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.
