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About a dozen more whales were dead on Tuesday morning. BRADEN FASTIER / STUFF/Stuff Volunteer Sean Gardiner talks of holding a baby whale during the rescue operation. Their dorsal fins stretched up towards the overcast sky. In places their shining matte-black skin was peeling from the sun, some had open flesh wounds and blood around them. Some volunteers stayed with the same whales for hours on Monday, dousing them in buckets of seawater, digging holes around them, and covering them in wet sheets and towels. They kept the whales upright, rocking and supporting them. Making sure they did...

Stuff Rescuers are back on the scene at Farewell Spit, after 28 whales restranded themselves. Department of Conservation spokeswoman Trish Grant said DOC rangers and about 50 volunteers started searching for the whales at first light, and found the pod of surviving 28 whales about 7am. As they did the day before, volunteers formed a human chain to walk the whales out to deeper water on Tuesday morning – keeping them together as a group to improve their chances of reorienting themselves. Braden Fastier/Stuff The whales were looking fatigued when rescuers arrived on Tuesday morning, with...