A DOLPHIN, a seal as well as other sea life have been found dead after becoming trapped in a ghost net off Maenporth Beach near Falmouth. A skeleton crew from volunteer conservation rescue group Fathoms Free was put together at short notice to go out and release the dead animals after being told that there was as a dead seal caught offshore. However when they arrived they found not only the dead seal but also a juvenile dolphin, a juvenile dogfish, a dozen mackerel and a couple of other fish species, all in various stages of decomposition caught up in the net. However they were able to save and release two lobsters, three edible crabs and five spider crabs.
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image captionThe sperm whale was one of seven that became stranded on Withernsea beach on Christmas Eve
The body of a 40ft (12m) long sperm whale which washed up on a beach in East Yorkshire has been removed.
It was one of seven whales that died after becoming stranded at Withernsea on 24 December.
Contractors used specialist equipment to remove the whale before taking it to a rendering plant for disposal.
Four other dead whales remain on the beach on a remote stretch of shoreline owned by the Crown Estates. Two washed back out to sea.
The 20 tonne whale was loaded on to a bespoke metal sledge and pulled along the beach by heavy plant machinery.
A 32ft (10-metre) sperm whale has washed up dead on the north Norfolk coast.
The juvenile male washed up at Sheringham on Tuesday and two members of Sheringham Coastguard went to investigate the stranding, the service said.
Photos, measurements and details of the creature were taken and sent to the Natural History Museum and other organisations, the coastguard said.
The Norfolk Cetaceans group said the whale may have been part of the same pod that recently stranded in Yorkshire.
The sperm whale washed up dead at Sheringham (Jason Tooke/PA)
Ten whales died after becoming stranded between Withernsea and Tunstall in East Yorkshire on Christmas Eve, British Divers Marine Life Rescue said.
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An extraordinary rescue mission ended in success on the island of Orkney after a stranded killer whale was returned to the ocean.
The young orca was found beached on the sand of the island, off the northeastern coast of Scotland, crying out for help.
Conveniently, the UK s leading marine life rescue team is based in Orkney.
Emma Neave-Webb, from British Divers Marine Life Rescue, helped in the rescue mission and said the young orca had possible become stuck after feeding in shallow waters.
A team of local residents and the marine rescue professionals helped return the killer whale to the water in an extremely rare success story.
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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.