Ben McIn nes, Portsmouth International Port’s harbour master stated: ‘Yesterday morning (30 December) during a routine boarding of AEL’ s Cote D’Ivorian Star, a normal freight ship lugging fruit from Africa, pilot watercraft team detected an item on the bow of the vessel. On additional assessment, the things was unfortunately recognized as a dead whale.

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“Fortunately this an unusual case, however can be rather intricate as well as entails a variety of firms to aid solve. However, there was no ‘emergency’ proclaimed aboard as well as no distress signal sent out.

“The Maritime as well as Coastguard Agency (MCA) were warned of the scenario as well as communicated with different firms consisting of the Counter Pollution Team, Receiver of Wreck, Portsmouth International Port, Queen’s Harbour Master, the ship’s proprietor as well as Environmental as well as Conservation Agencies were gotten in touch with.

“It is uncertain where the case took place, or whether the whale had actually currently passed away.

“The ship was released to sail into Portsmouth harbour late afternoon. The whale will now be brought ashore so it can be assessed and taken care of.”

Reference: portsmouth-port. co.uk