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Agence France-Presse

The carcass of a huge whale has been recovered from the waters off southern Italy, the coastguard said Wednesday, calling it “probably one of the largest” ever found in the Mediterranean.
The dead mammal was spotted in the sea on Sunday near the popular tourist destination of Sorrento by coastguard divers who were first alerted to the presence of a smaller whale, which has since disappeared into the sea.
The coastguard said it recovered the carcass overnight on Tuesday and then towed the whale from Sorrento by sea to the port of Naples, where it will be analysed by marine biologists and other experts looking for a cause of death.


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An photo taken in Spijkenisse, on November 2, 2020 shows a metro train that shot through a stop block at De Akkers metro station, without making any casualty. - A Dutch metro train was saved from disaster on November 2, 2020, when it smashed through a safety barrier but was prevented from plummeting into water by a sculpture of a whale tail. The driver of the train, who was the only person on board, was unharmed in the incident which happened just after midnight at Spijkenisse, near the port city of Rotterdam. The front carriage was left hanging 10 metres (30 feet) above the water, propped up only by the giant silver-coloured sculpture -- called, improbably, "Saved by the Whale's Tail." (Photo by Robin Utrecht / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT

02 November 2020, Netherlands, Spijkenisse: A wagon of an underground train rests on a whale tail sculpture after the train failed to come to a halt at the barricades. Photo: Jeffrey Groeneweg/ANP/dpa

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The dead mammal was spotted in the sea on Sunday near the popular tourist destination of Sorrento by coastguard divers
The coastguard said it towed the whale to the port of Naples, where it will be analysed by marine biologists looking for a cause of death



The coastguard said the whale was ‘probably one of the largest’ ever found in the Mediterranean.


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