Officials speculate the young male might have been swimming in a shipping channel.
The whale was pulled onto Craney Island after drivers spotted it Thursday near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
(Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves)
Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves
The whale was pulled onto Craney Island after drivers spotted it Thursday near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
(Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves)
Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves
Officials told WVEC that the whale, a young male, might have been following schools of bait fish and swum into a shipping channel. (Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves)
Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves
Heavy equipment was needed to remove the whale’s remains, which were estimated to weigh 10 tons. Officials told WVEC that the whale, a young male, might have been following schools of bait fish and swum into a shipping channel.
(Photo courtesy WVEC-TV/Steven Graves)
WASHINGTON — A humpback whale that washed up in the Chesapeake Bay in Portsmouth, Va., might have been injured by a ship propeller, according to an official with the Virginia Aquarium.
“We are waiting on histopathology results to come back from the lab to determine the exact cause of death, but an initial exam showed wounds consistent with a strike by a large propeller,” said the aquarium’s Matthew Klepeisz.
The whale was pulled onto Craney Island after drivers spotted it Thursday near the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, according to WVEC-TV in Hampton.
Heavy equipment was needed to remove its remains, which were estimated to weigh 10 tons.
Officials told WVEC that the whale, a young male, might have been following schools of bait fish and swum into a shipping channel.
