Posted: May 03, 2021 9:32 AM AT | Last Updated: May 3
Rescuers tried to calm the whale Saturday at Rainbow Haven Beach and ensure it was in deep enough waters.(Andrew Wright)
A baby female pilot whale that was found stranded over the weekend at a beach east of Halifax didn't survive, despite the best efforts of rescuers from a marine animal conservation group.
Tonya Wimmer, the executive director of Marine Animal Response Society, said they got a call around 10 a.m. on Saturday that a whale had been stranded at Rainbow Haven Beach and someone had pushed it back into the water.
Responders swept the area and found the whale on a nearby inaccessible sand bank. Wimmer said it managed to extricate itself from the sand bank and made its way to the back of a salt marsh.