Argentina: Dead whale washes up Mar del Plata beach

Subscribe to our channel! A whale was found dead on the coast of Mar del Plata on Thursday morning. The specimen was found dead in the Waikiki area, near the Malibu resort. Park rangers and Civil Defence were on site to examine the whale and prepare to remove it from the beach. “I ran into him in the sand he was already dead, I said wow, he looked giant to me I went to see him up close before they put up the fences,“ said Julian, a surfer. The specimen is a humpback whale that is about seven metres long 822 feet), similar to the one that appeared three years ago in the Punta Mogotes area and led to a mega rescue operation that ultimately failed to save the animal’s life. TRANSLATIONS: SOT, Rodrigo Goncalves, Director of civil defence (Spanish): “In the morning, a complaint reported the appearance of a large marine specimen that had run aground without life. Therefore, we approached the operational guard and verified the veracity of the complaint and from there start everything that ha
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