Six whales have died after seven of them washed up on an Irish beach in the largest live stranding of the animals in the country's history
"One of them is still alive and can still be seen trying to breathe."
Ms Regan explained that despite the tide coming in, hopes the only surviving member of the group would make it back to its normal habitat alive were remote."It's very bleak," she said. "Because northern bottlenose whales are deep-diving, the fact that they are in shallow coastal waters means that its chances of survival without the rest of its family are very low."
But the group later released video which offered fresh hope, saying:"One whale seen here lifting its head to breathe has refloated itself and swam out with the incoming tide. "We are cautiously optimistic it will make it out but IWDG will standby and check to see if it restrands."She told Sky News that while investigations were ongoing, the cause of whale strandings was normally"acoustic trauma" - which she said was invariably the result of human activity.IWDG said each of the whales would have weighed between three and four tonnes, meaning the logistics and resources involved in refloating them made doing so impossible in most instances.
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