 "42-ft-long blue whale washed ashore near Mumbai coast, dies")
Alibaug (Maha): A 42-feet-long blue whale, the largest extant animal and among the heaviest existing species on the earth, was washed ashore and later died of its injuries. The marine mammal, weighing about 20 tonnes, was washed ashore following high tide at the Revdanda sea shore, about 20 kms from Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, on Wednesday. [caption id=“attachment_2313634” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  The 42-feet-long blue whale that washed ashore. Twitter @SpeedTaiChi[/caption] The locals who spotted the whale lying in an injured condition informed the Raigad collector office and the fisheries officials. The district authorities, revenue and fisheries officials brought in JCB machines on Thursday morning and tried to push the whale into the waters, but all efforts proved futile, Deputy Collector, Alibaug region, Deepak Kshirsagar said. The huge weight of the whale and marshy beach posed a hindrance in the efforts to push the mammal into the sea. The whale died on Thursday at the sea shore. Later, the JCB machines were deployed to dig the ground on the beach where the carcass was buried. There are about 20 types of whales found in the Arabian Sea.
A #whale washes up dead at #Alibaug beach near #Mumbai @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/vE2hIFbF48
— Anjali Lukose (@anjali_lukose) June 25, 2015
Blue Whale Washed Ashore At Alibaug Beach. Villagers Help While Tourists Click Selfies! http://t.co/ALPjFqMCg1 pic.twitter.com/iNzCp7XXKp
— VamaIndia (@vamaindiaa) June 26, 2015
Stuck for over 18 hrs, 42ft blue whale dies at Mumbai's Alibaug beach http://t.co/dYPuwc1Dam via @htTweets @HTMumbai pic.twitter.com/D8j1wuGbHV
— Rajesh Mahapatra | ରାଜେଶ ମହାପାତ୍ର (@rajeshmahapatra) June 26, 2015
Blue whale which washed up near Mumbai coast is buried there pic.twitter.com/iEsBh1CUHb
— NDTV (@ndtv) June 26, 2015
40-feet-long Blue Whale dies after getting washed ashore in Raigad http://t.co/eJPt7cBzIT pic.twitter.com/CA6sept25x
— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) June 26, 2015
Another dead whale was washed ashore the Uran coast in Raigad about two months back. Prior to it, a dead whale was found on the shore of Diveaghar in the district some two years back. PTI
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