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A young orca has been rescued after becoming stranded on a beach in Orkney.
The 3.4m (11ft) long animal, thought to be a male, was spotted at Bay of Newark on Sanday on Monday.
Volunteers from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) charity and local residents spent more than an hour helping the orca.
They managed to get it into a position where it could breathe properly and eventually swim out into open water once the tide had come in.
BMLR said strandings of orca were incredibly rare and it believed the Sanday incident was the first successful rescue of an orca by its volunteers.