Whale Becomes Stuck on Hayling IslandHayling Island Has Got a WhaleYou Won’t Believe the Size of the Catch on HaylingWhaley Sorry to See You
The other week, something astonishing came about on our Hayling Island. an 8 m long Northern Bottlenose whale beached on some mudflats just north of Hayling in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Unluckily, the whale had suffered from severe dehydration, which meant it was suffering from kidney failure, when it became pinned on Monday night.
There was a super saving scheme, where humans attempted valiently to preserve the Northern Bottlenose’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the stupefying animal to sleep with a lethal injection. However, the whale then drifted out to sea yet again. Unluckily, it came back towards the coast again and was beached for a 2nd and ultimate time.
The medical officers adjudicated that the only compassionate thing to do would be to supply the lethal injection, which they did on Friday morning. They used Immobilon, which was a very prompt and lethal strength of anaesthetic.
If the mammal weren’t put to sleep, the experts believe that it would have taken about two further days for the animal to die, during which it would have remained sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the six metric ton mammalian, which is commonly found about 3000 miles away, ended 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.
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