Better than 150 whales strand themselves on Western Australian seaside

Only 15 fast-finned pilot whales are alive after a mass stranding match which saw more than 150 of them stranded on the West Australian wing.

Volunteers, veterinarian workers and natural world officers made their nearly Hamelin Bay early on Friday morning, working to make certain their survival. 

But by 12 p.m., many of the whales had already died, with winds and a swell from a tropical cyclone proving a pain for workers hoping to run the surviving animals serve to water.

« Unfortunately, many of the whales beached themselves on dry land in a single day and fetch now not survived, » incident controller Jeremy Chick acknowledged in a assertion online.

« There are easiest 15 surviving in shallow waters and we hope to run them out to sea in a while the present time … Rescue operations will likely be hampered by deteriorating, climate stipulations and we fetch to make certain the safety of every person nice looking earlier than we run the whales. »

The seaside remains closed, and authorities fetch warned of sharks within the plan. 

Short-finned pilot whales normally strand themselves en masse, per WA Parks and Wildlife. The deadliest whale stranding in Western Australia came about in 1996, when 320 lengthy-finned pilot whales were found beached within the south western metropolis of Dunsborough. 

A the same match came about at Recent Zealand’s Farewell Spit serve in February 2017, where 416 lengthy-finned pilot whales were stranded in even handed one of the nation’s worst incidences. 

WA Parks and Wildlife Carrier officers fetch taken DNA samples from the deceased whales at Hamelin Bay for clues as to why whales strand themselves.