{"id":9759,"date":"2026-05-02T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:08:24","slug":"humpback-whale-timmy-released-in-north-sea-after-weeks-stranded-off-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/9759\/","title":{"rendered":"Humpback whale \u2018Timmy\u2019 released in North Sea after weeks stranded off Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had been stranded in shallow waters near Germany since March, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nicknamed \u201cTimmy\u201d by German media, the whale was spotted swimming near Germany\u2019s Baltic Sea coast on March 3, far from its natural habitat in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The mammal\u2019s health deteriorated as it became repeatedly stranded in shallow waters near the coastal city of Wismar, and unsuccessful efforts to coax it towards deeper seas were live-streamed across the globe.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The environment minister for Germany\u2019s Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state gave the green light for the attempt to save the whale, proposed by a private initiative, despite some warnings from the scientific community that it may be too much for the animal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jens Schwarck, a member of the private initiative who was on site, said the whale was released around 9am, according to the German news agency dpa. The agency reported that the whale was released 70km (about 45 miles) from the coast of Skagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A humpback whale spouts in the open North Sea on Saturday. Photo: NonstopNews via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7fd9b407-94f3-4421-b0d0-d12126242127_f9ccb268.jpg\" title=\"A humpback whale spouts in the open North Sea on Saturday. Photo: NonstopNews via Reuters\"\/>A humpback whale spouts in the open North Sea on Saturday. Photo: NonstopNews via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Drone footage showed a whale swimming and spouting water near the barge, though it was not immediately confirmed that the animal was indeed Timmy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rescue team on Saturday released from a barge in the North Sea a humpback whale that had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1446,5,9153,104,6895,168,9154,9152,5896,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-9759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-denmark","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-gps-transmitter","11":"tag-humpback-whale","12":"tag-mecklenburg-western-pomerania","13":"tag-north-sea","14":"tag-skagen","15":"tag-stranded-whale","16":"tag-timmy","17":"tag-wismar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}