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Towboat Trash · Last edited by Towboat Trash on Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:10 am; edited 1 time in total

Howdy everyone,

just getting back from another beach beat down and painful suffering extravaganza and really wanted yall's help identifying and/or doing something about the following fellow.

He's down around the 31 mile marker, and the mammal stranding network has been notified, thanks to ya for that Senior J, "Rebbeca of Sunnybrook." Your help is most appreciated, in the heat of the moment no one had any idea who to call.

After trying for a few hours to free this fellow, we finally got him, and saw him swim back down the deep deep first gut, only to beach himself deliberately all over again.

I'm really sorry about the bad photos, in the midst of things it just got to hectic, what with the storm and all down there right now. From what Jay has told me there aren't enough volunteers right now to go and help this critter tonight, so they hope to go in the morning. Let's all keep our hopes that this whale lives to see the daylight, because looking into that dark deep eye of his was unlike any experience I've had. Thanks guys.
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shallowsport · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:43 pm Post subject:

Have. No idea what that is. Very interesting & the eyes are amazing thanks for the rescue effort. Hope someone has success in saving it.

Jetty Bandit · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:08 am Post subject:

Looks like a Pygmy Sperm Whale.
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Towboat Trash · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:53 am Post subject:

Sorry for the late update, but Heidi and crew from the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding network are headed out this AM, let's hope this critter survived the night and something can possibly be done to release him back to the wild again. It's a long shot she said but there's always the chance. In either event, from the pictures I sent Heidi just identified this fellow as a Pygmy sperm whale.
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fishinglady · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:53 am Post subject:

Thank you for your efforts to help the poor whaler. I hope he makes it.
I wonder if that leaking chemical container had anything to do with the whale's problems. Wasn't the container at the 30?

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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:00 am Post subject:

Certainly agree with the ID provided, but don't have too much hope for its fate. A glance of the PINS camera this morning shows some pretty nasty conditions. Strong N winds and waves building out past the 4th bar!! Shocked

Not a great day to be that far down the beach. Fingers crossed, but not banking on a positive outcome.

[Interesting red color on the tail fluke, as well as the head. The "pink" underbelly is supposedly common in this species, but it fades quickly after death. So .... maybe.......]

RiPPin LiPS · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 9:28 am Post subject:

What's a good estimate of weight for this whale ??
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Towboat Trash · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:04 pm Post subject:

deputydawg · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 4:48 pm Post subject:

Good to see you bud, but i wish we would have been down that far to help you! It was a NASTY morning for sure and I didn't risk going any farther. I didnt see anybody pass us this morning at th 18ish, course we didn't roll out of bed till about 10. Sure hope he made it though. You did what you could though!!!

Towboat Trash · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 12:56 pm Post subject:

TexGator · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 22 May 2012 Posts: 429

Your a good man to put in the effort. Sad but facinating

deputydawg · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:21 pm Post subject:

Mel · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:23 pm Post subject:

Nice try TT, getting it out once was a very hard task. From what I have read it's near impossible to get them to stay out once they decide to ground themselves. Maybe they can figure out what made it ground himself.

Sherkus · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 8:28 am Post subject:

Ok, I feel a little better. Last year when fishing around fish pass, I saw a very similar whale jump. Thinking at first it was a dolphin, realized quickly that what I saw had the girth of a chevy suburban. I went home in hope to identify what I had seen, but Internet searches for whales of the Gulf of Mexico produced pic after pic of whale sharks.

The one I saw was brownish black with white patches, like a cow. It had a large head, like a sperm whale.

You never know what the ocean will show you, that's why I love surf fishing more than ever !
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