{"id":507787,"date":"2026-04-01T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507787\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:49:09","slug":"rescuers-abandon-hope-for-whale-stranded-off-german-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/507787\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers abandon hope for whale stranded off German island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greenpeace marine biologist Thilo Maack said they had tried to stop the whale entering a shallow bay on Poel Island, but it had done so anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First spotted in German coastal waters in early March, the whale is thought to have become entangled in netting before eventually becoming stranded on a sandbank on Timmendorfer Strand, near the town of Travem\u00fcnde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The humpback is also thought to have been suffering from a skin condition brought on by the lower salt levels of the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Late last week, hopes had been high that the whale might move to deeper waters after excavators dug a channel enabling him to swim off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Attempts to guide the humpback towards the saltier waters of the North Sea proved unsuccessful, and he swam some distance east along the coast before becoming stuck again in a coastal bay in the city of Wismar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenpeace marine biologist Thilo Maack said they had tried to stop the whale entering a shallow bay on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-507787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}