Whale beaches at Delaware Seashore State Park for 2nd time in 3 months
Delaware News Journal|Shannon Marvel McNaught|Aug 6, 2024
For the second time in three months, on Monday, a whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park on the north side of the Indian River Inlet. The Lewes-based nonprofit Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute removed the whale from the beach that afternoon. Executive Director Suzanne Thurman identified it as a pilot whale but has been unavailable to provide further information. Coast TV reports the whale has since died.
For the second time in three months, on Monday, a whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park on the north side of the Indian River Inlet. The Lewes-based nonprofit Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute removed the whale from the beach that afternoon. Executive Director Suzanne Thurman identified it as a pilot whale but has been unavailable to provide further information. Coast TV reports the whale has since died.
For the second time in three months, on Monday, a whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park on the north side of the Indian River Inlet.
The Lewes-based nonprofit Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute removed the whale from the beach that afternoon. Executive Director Suzanne Thurman identified it as a pilot whale but has been unavailable to provide further information. Coast TV reports the whale has since died.
Robin Emerick, of Cumberland, Maryland, and her daughter, Katrina Cooper, of Frostburg, Maryland, have a camper in Ocean View and visit Delaware Seashore regularly. They were on the north beach near the inlet Monday.
A pilot whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park Monday, Aug. 6, 2024.
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For the second time in three months, on Monday, a whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park on the north side of the Indian River Inlet.
The Lewes-based nonprofit Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute removed the whale from the beach that afternoon. Executive Director Suzanne Thurman identified it as a pilot whale but has been unavailable to provide further information. Coast TV reports the whale has since died.
Robin Emerick, of Cumberland, Maryland, and her daughter, Katrina Cooper, of Frostburg, Maryland, have a camper in Ocean View and visit Delaware Seashore regularly. They were on the north beach near the inlet Monday.
A pilot whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park Monday, Aug. 6, 2024.
The first sign of the whale was a fin sticking out of shallow waters next to the jetty, the 43-year-old Cooper said, and around 12:30 p.m. it got stuck between some rocks.
"A man ran in and was able to get it upright, but it just kept swimming into the rocks," Cooper said. "Another younger man jumped in and physically pulled the whale out into the water."
A pilot whale beached itself at Delaware Seashore State Park Monday, Aug. 6, 2024.
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The people who got close to the whale told her there were large cuts down its back, she said. Eventually, it beached itself north of the jetty, and people again assisted it back into the water.
By the time it beached itself again, MERR representatives had arrived, Cooper said. Emerick's video shows Thurman and beachgoers working together to lift the whale into a vehicle. It was about 6 or 7 feet long, according to Cooper.
In May, a 50-foot fin whale beached itself and died at Delaware Seashore. MERR set up a perimeter and monitored the whale until its death, after which they performed a necropsy.