Pictures show a huge eight-hour operation deemed the largest of its kind to move a 30tonne whale carcass from a British beach. Onlookers at Bridlington Beach, East Riding of Yorks., were left stunned when they stumbled upon a 17m long grounded fin whale.
The 55ft mammal had been swimming along the coast in the North Sea before it got into trouble before grounding and tragically dying. Experts feared that the huge whale would have to be dissected in order to remove it from the popular beach.
But contractors were able to lift the giant mammal onto a trailer using JCB diggers to maneuver the carcass in a grueling eight-hour operation. The body was successfully removed at just after 4pm on Friday in an operation that the council have described as the 'largest of its kind'.
