This giant whale got washed up on a beach; Takes six hours to be moved

Northern Ireland was shook with a very intense situation earlier as they found a giant female whale washed up on the shore. Images were captured as a huge 43 ft beached whale was tied onto the back of a wagon and removed after being washed ashore.

Bigger boat is not a necessity. The workers needed three big diggers to lift the 20-tonne whale onto the lorry. The operation lasted for six hours where they started at 4pm and finished at 10pm.

The female marine mammal was found on the beach in Portstewart Country Londonderry. The female sei whale is the third to have been washed onto the Irish shore since 2007. The cause of her death is believed to be old age.

Joe Breen of Department of the Environment said, “We tried to get it on to a trailer with two diggers [but] we needed a bigger digger. We were able to get a 40ft rig from a company working on a road dualling scheme, but it took all three diggers to lift the whale.”

A video was caught showing how huge the whale is. The red balloon shape is said to be the whale’s tongue, which had blown up.

Seagulls gathered over the whale as it washed ashore. The operation of removing it there collected more interested people.

It has been said that today, there are 12,000 Balaenoptera borealis sei whales. These creatures can live up to 65 years old but are already believed to be endangered species.

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