Whale is beached near Port Solent in Portsmouth and dies despite rescue effort
A whale has died after becoming beached near Port Solent.
The coastguard said it was called out at 7am today to the stricken animal, which was on the Southampton Road shoreline.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue was called out as well.
A spokesman for the coastguard service confirmed the creature – believed to be a Sowerby’s beaked whale, according to BDMLR – had died. It was about the size of a porpoise.