After being rescued from a Baltic Sea bay off the island of Poel and transported for several days, the rescued humpback whale has been released into the North Sea. At around 9.00 a.m., the animal was no longer in the barge, Jens Schwarck from the private rescue initiative told the news agency dpa.
According to initial information from Bild, the captain of the tugboat is said to have ordered the release of the whale. However, the animal was apparently not released into the open sea at the location originally intended by the rescue initiative, but around 70 kilometres north of Skagen in Denmark.
