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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alistair Mason

World-first floating habitat to aid whales’ reintroduction to open water

PA Media

Two rehabilitated beluga whales will be helped to settle into their new open-water home by a world-first floating habitat.

The structure, which was specially designed and made for the Sea Life Trust Beluga Whale Sanctuary, was dragged on a 16-hour journey across 48 miles by a tugboat to the island of Heimaey, off the coast of Iceland.

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