Overview
- - The privately run convoy, which turned back from rough seas on Friday near Skagen, was heading north in the North Sea toward Norway early Saturday with the whale still in a water-filled barge used as a mobile pool.
- - The team attached a tracking tag and set up the net for a fast open, and they say release will happen only in daylight when waves ease and the animal looks stable.
- - Strong winds and two-meter waves forced the pause on Friday, and crews said the swell raised the risk of the whale being injured inside the steel tank.
- - Denmark’s environment ministry said it does not rescue stranded large whales, so the animal would likely receive no help if it beaches again in Danish waters.
- - Experts from the German Oceanographic Museum and Whale and Dolphin Conservation warn the whale is very weak and could drown in open water, and they define success as sustained independent swimming and feeding on a normal route.