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Off the west coast of Tasmania, an island state of Australia, 270 cetaceans have run aground on sandbars and efforts are underway to rescue them. Beached cetaceans are pilot whales that belong to the same family as dolphins, although their behavior is more similar to that of whales. Pilot whales have run aground in shallow water near Macquarie Harbor.
Tasmania’s Marine Wildlife Protection Service said 25 pilot whales have now been released, while about a third of all stranded are already dead.
Rescue operations began Tuesday morning, but they are not easy because the sandbars are also located hundreds of meters from the coast and rescuers will also have to assess the best way to proceed based on the tides.
In the area it is not uncommon for a large number of cetaceans to be stranded. There are more whale strandings in Tasmania than in any other Australian state and the port of Macquarie is one of the sites where these events occur most frequently. Tasmanian authorities have declared a Reuters they have to intervene every two or three weeks due to the stranding of whales or dolphins.
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