Disentanglement efforts underway as whale spotted dragging buoy near EC coastline
The National Sea Rescue Insitute is urging the public in the area not to approach the whale and instead call the necessary authorities.
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The South African Whale Disentanglement Network along with Eastern Cape’s Municipality are monitoring a tangled whale on the province’s coastline which appears to be towing a large floating buoy making its way South.
The National Sea Rescue Insitute is urging the public in the area not to approach the whale and instead call the necessary authorities.
NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said: "South African Whale Disentanglement Network, in cooperation with NSRI, will at the first viable opportunity send out a SAWDN/NSRI rescue team to investigate and to hopefully conduct a formal disentanglement operation.”
Lambinon added the whale appears to be reasonably deep in the sea.
"The concern we have at present is that we do not want local mariners to put themselves at any unnecessary risk. But we do appreciate if any sightings are made of the whale's progress to report those sightings to the NSRI Emergency Operation Center and we will react as soon as we can identify the best viable options to intervene," said Lambinon.