Overview
- Salvamento Marítimo located the carcass off O Portiño on Saturday and towed it to the Oza dock using the Helimer 401 helicopter and the Salvamar Betelgeuse vessel.
- The Port of A Coruña led a Tuesday morning operation using two large cranes to lift the roughly 30-ton whale onto the quay for controlled handling.
- Cemma is dismembering the animal to collect scientific samples, noting that advanced decomposition likely limits the chances of a definitive necropsy result.
- Gesuga is tasked with removing the remains from the dock and transporting them to its facilities for treatment, a process expected to include rendering into meal.
- Cemma identified the specimen as a 21-meter male fin whale and is examining it for collision signs, plastics, and other evidence during sampling.