The whale swam free late Monday but got stuck again.
A humpback whale, that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast in recent days has got stuck again and is pictured near the island of Poel in Weitendorf-Hof, Germany, Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
BERLIN — A humpback whale that has become stranded repeatedly off Germany’s Baltic Sea coast in recent days got stuck again on Tuesday, authorities said, less than a day after swimming free. ButThe whale, which is 39-49 feet long, swam free late Monday from the spot near the German port of Wismar where it had been stuck since the weekend. It disappeared from view for hours until it was seen Tuesday morning off an island called Walfisch — as it happens, a dated German word for “whale.”Seizing Kharg Island would risk US troops’ lives and may not end Iran war, experts sayKing Charles to make a state visit to the US despite calls to cancel due to the Iran warPolice and the environmental group Greenpeace sent rubber boats to accompany the whale, but it turned off a course that would have taken it out of Wismar Bay and into an inlet, where it was stranded again, said Till Backhaus, the environment minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state. Rescuers were at least able to prevent it from swimming far into the inlet, and it is once again in deep enough water that it could swim off under its own steam, Greenpeace marine biologist Thilo Maack said at a televised news conference. An effort last week to rescue the whale from a shallow underwater sandbank at Timmendorfer Strand, a resort town over 30 miles from its current location, eventually succeeded with the But the apparently exhausted whale was soon in trouble again, albeit in somewhat deeper water. On Tuesday, officials were again banking on giving it peace and quiet to gather enough strength to swim away, and possibly approaching it with boats to motivate it to set off.Even if it swims off again, the whale is still far from its natural habitat. “Our aim is out of Wismar Bay, into the Baltic Sea, through Danish waters into the North Sea, and then into the Atlantic where the whale belongs,” Maack said. “These animals are designed for depths that are beyond anything found anywhere in the Baltic Sea.” The whale was first spotted swimming in the region on March 3. It is not clear why the whale swam into the. Some experts say the animal may have lost its way when it swam after a shoal of herring, or during migration. No tracker has been attached to the whale because its skin is in a poor state after long exposure to the relatively low salt concentration of the Baltic. Even to reach the North Sea, it faces a journey of several hundred kilometers .“Of course it is sick, all of us know that, and what other internal problems it has we don’t know,” he added. But “I am still keeping my fingers crossed and I hope that we will still have a good ending.” ‘Character of our community is diminished’: Borrego Springs group asks for short-term rental regulations‘We don’t have enough food’: Providers brace for thousands of San Diegans to lose SNAP benefitsSan Diego’s USS Boxer stops in Hawaii en route to transporting Camp Pendleton Marines to Middle EastIts schools are falling apart, and voters won’t pass a bond. Could a little-used tactic help this district?Santee fire that prompted evacuations at shopping center charred 5 acres
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