The rescue mission to free pilot whales involved in a mass stranding in western Tasmania is being wound down with operations moving to ocean burials for the nearly 200 dead animals. 9News
in western Tasmania is being wound down on Sunday, with operations moving to ocean burials for the nearly 200 dead animals. Incident Controller Brendon Clark confirmed there were no surviving whales left on Ocean Beach, near Macquarie Harbour, south of Strahan, as of yesterday.
A photo showing the stranded pilot whales on September 21, 2022. Photo: Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania. While most were swimming freely, a few were spotted stranded in shallower waters and rescuers will attempt to free them today so they can swim out of the harbour. Authorities plan today to start removing the carcasses of about 200 whales that died in the mass stranding, weather allowing.If the weather permits, crews could clear the beach and potentially finish their response to the mass stranding. The pilot whales were found last Wednesday stranded on an exposed beach along the west coast of Tasmania.Authorities plan to tow the whale carcasses out to sea and release them in very deep water. The incident was the second mass stranding of whales to have taken place in Tasmania last week after more than a dozen sperm whales, mostly young males and believed to be part of the same bachelor pod, were found dead on another beach.Tasmania's largest stranding was in 2020 when more than 450 pilot whales were found.
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