), my favourite 'Eua (Tonga) #humpback resident from last time on the islands. This year I'll be off Ha'apai, and hope to spend some time free diving with her again! #whales #underwaterphotographyWhen I was a kid, a whale swam upstream to where I lived and got kinda stuck. It was a big deal and people worked together to drive him back downstream and out to the bay. His name is Humphrey the #Humpback Whale. (5 years later he did the same thing again and his name kinda changed to Dumphrey)
Today we have Timmy, a #whale in German waters. An ambitious #rescue attempt is being executed, carrying #Timmy several days north in a flooded barge. 🌸https://www.reuters.com/world/effort-begins-rescue-timmy-humpback-whale-stranded-off-germanys-baltic-coast-2026-04-28/ #humphrey #animal
I trust that staff of the #WhaleSanctuaryProject, experienced in the care, rehab, and release at least of toothed whales, will not "just drop" a critically sick #baleen, #humpback #whale into deep waters.
Ich vertraue darauf, dass Mitarbeitende des Whale Sanctuary Project, die Erfahrung in der Fürsorge, Rehabilitation und Freilassung zumindest von #Zahnwalen haben, einen schwerkranken #Bartenwal, #Buckelwal, nicht einfach in tiefe Gewässer "plumpsen lassen".
"On a misty morning in December 2025, two photographers captured the images of 304 individual #humpback s ...."
BBC: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
#photography © Chris Follows
thank you for all the live reports, News5
I feel so very sorry for the whale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7En_5OHCk
#news5 #news5live #timmy #hope #buckelwal #humpback #balticsea #poel #poelisland #stranded #strandedwhale #timmendorferstrand #WismarerBucht #sandbank #wismar #Kirchsee #backhaus #lehmann
