{"id":36491,"date":"2025-09-03T18:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/stranded-whale-dies-on-swansea-beach\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:42:34","slug":"stranded-whale-dies-on-swansea-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/stranded-whale-dies-on-swansea-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded whale dies on Swansea beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A 12-month-old long-finned pilot whale has died after becoming stranded on a beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Beachgoers at Llangennith, Swansea, including Adi Armoni, tried to rescue the marine animal but were unable to save it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Armoni said: &#8220;We tried whatever we could, but it died in my hands after 15 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Marine Life Rescue was contacted but arrived after the whale had died. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The whale was first spotted at 14:30 BST on Monday, when Mr Armoni arrived to find a group of people already trying to move the animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The tide was going out, and the longer we stayed there, the water went too far and we couldn&#8217;t bring lift it,&#8221; he said <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;We realised we couldn&#8217;t move it, so I suggested digging a hole below the head to help it breathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;The animal was too heavy, and conditions got worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Mr Armoni entered the water to try and support the whale, but despite their efforts, the animal died within minutes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Around 30 minutes after the whale was first spotted, Marine Life Rescue arrived, but the whale had died. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5y482xg3llo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-month-old long-finned pilot whale has died after becoming stranded on a beach. Beachgoers at Llangennith, Swansea, including Adi Armoni, tried to rescue the marine animal but were unable to save it. Mr Armoni said: &#8220;We tried whatever we could, but it died in my hands after 15 minutes.&#8221; Marine Life Rescue was contacted but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[192,1017,5740,4518,1459],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wales","tag-beach","tag-dies","tag-stranded","tag-swansea","tag-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36493,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}