Whale swims for freedom after big German rescue effort on Baltic coast
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Rescue teams successfully freed a whale from shallow waters in Lübeck Bay on the Baltic coast.
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A whale stranded on a sandbank off Germany's Baltic coast has been successfully freed following a major rescue operation. Rescue teams deployed in Lübeck Bay worked to refloat the marine mammal, which had become trapped in shallow waters where whales are vulnerable to injury and dehydration. Officials now hope the whale will navigate out of the bay and return to deeper ocean waters where it can survive. Large whale strandings in European coastal areas typically occur when animals become disoriented or pursue prey into dangerously shallow zones. The successful refloating represents a rare positive outcome in cases where marine mammals run aground.
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Rescue teams are managing the whale's recovery and hope it will swim out into the wider sea.
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