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July 31, 2006

Down The Shore: A Whale Of A Time!

PWD Down The Shore
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Late last week, a group of beachgoers were sitting around, minding their own business in Sea Isle City, when they spotted a pair of whales on the beach. So the beachgoers decided to form a chain and push, push, push the whales back into the ocean.

This is quite a feat. When I'm on the beach, I don't want to get up for anything that doesn't involve me immediately getting back on the towel and going to sleep. But apparently people in Sea Isle are good people, and so a group of about 20 of them rolled two whales (a baby, which was easy, and a mother, which took extra support) back into the ocean.

There's been no sight of the whales since we humans pushed our fellow mammal back into the ocean, but Mitch Myers, who helped rescue the whale, knows what he'll remember:

"That's the biggest mammal I've ever touched,” said Myers.

Just in case you thought he had touched a larger whale.

Beached whales in Sea Isle City returned to the water [Press of Atlantic City]
Photo via 6 ABC

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