Hvaldimir, whose name is a combination of the word “hval”, the Norwegian word for whale, and Vladimir, after the Russian president, was first spotted by fishermen in Norway in 2019.
Sebastian Strand, who worked to protect the 14 foot-long whale, known as Hvaldimir, said he found the dead mammal floating near Risavika in south-western Norway on Saturday.“It’s heartbreaking,” Strand, who runs Marine Mind, a non-profit organisation, told theStrand said his team will now send Hvaldimir to a facility where his body can be preserved in order to determine a cause of death, which was not immediately clear.
He had been wearing a harness marked “equipment St Petersburg” as well as what appeared to be a camera mount. “He was completely acclimatised to human culture,” Strand said, potentially owing to the fact that Hvaldimir had “been in captivity for a lot of his life”.
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