{"id":608913,"date":"2026-05-28T18:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608913\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:16:09","slug":"whale-spotted-near-port-of-immingham-confirmed-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608913\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale spotted near Port of Immingham confirmed dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A whale spotted at the Port of Immingham has been confirmed dead, wildlife rescuers have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The minke whale was reported to Cleethorpes Wildlife Rescue (CWR) on Wednesday evening, with volunteers attending the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and HM Coastguard were alerted to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A BDMLR spokesperson said the whale was carried into port on the front of a ship, adding: &#8220;It is not clear if the whale was already deceased when it was struck by the vessel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whale spotted at the Port of Immingham has been confirmed dead, wildlife rescuers have said. The minke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-608913","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\/608913","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=608913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}