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By AFP Apr 16th 2012

MEXICO CITY, (AFP) -- Volunteers and Navy personnel returned a 12-ton whale to the sea after it became stranded on a beach in the southwestern Mexican city of Oaxaca.
About 150 volunteers worked with over 40 Marines for 12 hours Friday on the Pacific Coast beach to keep the whale alive and maneuver it back into the water.

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Local military commanders ordered marine environmental protection officers, underwater specialists and other Navy personnel "to help the whale return to the sea," the Navy said in a statement.

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The marines used two patrol boats, a smaller boat and vehicles to move the whale off the beach and back into the ocean. The nine-meter (30-foot) whale suffered injuries to its right flipper, apparently from lying on its side on the beach, the Navy statement said.

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gailyn48

NOT NICE, CUSACITIZEN!! Lovely and caring people live and work in Mexico -- what the heck is wrong with you? Because drug lords are making life a living hell for many citizens in Mexico is no reason to make a comment like that.

April 16 2012 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cognitogrrl

Can't save all the beached whales or dolphins, but that's ONE, thank God

April 16 2012 at 12:17 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
undrgrndgirl

come on aol...your headline says the whale was returned to the BEACH!
i'd be happy to come to work for you as an editor, need a job.

April 16 2012 at 10:50 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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CUSACitizen

I think you might not have read correctly. The heading in the article I am reading from AOL says....."Mexicans return beached whale to sea alive" at any rate we now see that Mexicans have their good side.

April 16 2012 at 12:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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