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A large-scale rescue effort<\/a> was underway on a remote stretch of New Zealand\u2019s <\/a>South Island<\/a> after dozens of pilot whales<\/a> became stranded, leaving six dead and 15 fighting for survival on Thursday. <\/p>\n The animals washed ashore on Thursday at Farewell Spit, a narrow sand formation known for repeated strandings. Though the majority of the pod initially managed to return to the sea, a group of whales later became stranded again, scattered across roughly a kilometre stretch of the beach.<\/p>\n Footage released by the marine conservation charity Project Jonah showed volunteers surrounding the whales and dousing them with buckets of water in an effort to prevent overheating while they waited for the tide to rise.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the tide comes in, we\u2019re going to have to move really quickly to bring these whales together, then move them out to deeper waters,\u201d Louisa Hawkes of Project Jonah said, according to the BBC. <\/p>\n