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Coastal view near Cemaes Bay, Anglesey(Image: Google)<\/p>\nA coastguard helicopter, a lifeboat and a cruise ship were all diverted after a mystery object was spotted floating in the sea – and what was found was a ‘definite first’ for teamsCoastal view near Cemaes Bay, Anglesey(Image: Google)<\/p>\n
A Coastguard helicopter was diverted when a cruise ship spotted what appeared to be an overturned boat in deep waters north of Anglesey<\/a>. Upon closer examination, the ‘Unidentified Floating Object’ was identified as the carcass of a massive whale.<\/p>\n Upon receiving the initial report, Moelfre’s RNLI lifeboat was put on standby, ready for immediate launch. The cruise ship was requested by HM Coastguard Holyhead to make a U-turn and investigate the sighting some 30 miles off the north Anglesey coast.<\/p>\n A Coastguard helicopter from Caernarfon, which was on a training exercise, was also dispatched to the location. Read the biggest stories in Wales first by signing up to our daily newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n Between them they discovered not a boat, but the remains of a 15 metre-long (50ft) whale.<\/p>\n In the end, the Moelfre all-weather lifeboat wasn’t required, but its coxswain Vince Jones stated: “It’s a main shipping lane and we regularly get call-outs there to reports of unidentified floating objects.<\/p>\n “Usually they turn out to be floating jetsam \u2013 fishing gear and debris from derelict vessels”, reports North Wales Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n “A decomposing whale carcass was definitely a first for us!<\/p>\n “As the carcass was so far off shore, it wouldn’t have posed an immediate danger to smaller vessels. So its position was noted and nature was left to take its course.”<\/p>\n Get daily breaking news<\/strong> updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here<\/a>. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coastguard helicopter, a lifeboat and a cruise ship were all diverted after a mystery object was spotted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[35435,748,4884,11746,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-330143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-anglesey","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-north-wales","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114997978324771416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}