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The other week,an heroic event came about on little old Hayling Island. There was a 8 metre long whale beached on a mudflat just north of Hayling in the neighboring Langstone Harbour, Hampshire.
Regrettably, the whale had experienced severe dehydration, which meant it was suffering from renal failure, when it became confined on Thursday night.
There was a super saving scheme, where people attempted tirelessly to preserve the whale’s life. There was a time when the team thought that the kind thing to do would be to put the imposing whale to sleep with a lethal injection. But, the whale then drifted out to sea again. Alas, it came back towards the land again and was then beached for a 2nd and ultimate time.
The trained vets 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 fast 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 creature to die, during which it would have stayed sick and distressed.
It seemed bizarre that the 6 metric ton mammal, which is usually found about 3000 miles away, finished 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.
