Safe and whale: Rescuers keep rare beached mammal floating in the water as they battle to push it back to sea

  • The 3.75-metre beaked whale was spotted washed up on Mystics Beach
  • Rescuers waiting for weather to improve before releasing the whale
  • The  half-tonne whale is being floated in the water with a group of rescuers
  • The NSW coast has been battered by wild weather and rough seas 

By Nelson Groom for Daily Mail Australia

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A rare whale beached from rough seas is being kept safe as rescuers battle to release it back into open seas.

Images show the 3.75-metre beaked whale washed ashore on Mystics Beach at Minnamurra, on New South Wales south coast.

Rescuers  waited for the weather to improve before releasing the half tonne whale back into the ocean, reports ABC.

Rescue teams keep a stranded whale safe after it got beaches in rough seas on Mystics Beach

Rescue teams keep a stranded whale safe after it got beaches in rough seas on Mystics Beach

The deep-sea mammal was moved to a nearby beach by the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORCCA).

'The ocean conditions have continued to deteriorate and it was very unsafe for both the whale and personnel to be in that area,' ORCCA president Ronny Ling said. 

He said it is important the animal is not released prematurely as it could become stranded again in the big seas.

Parts of the NSW coast have been battered by wild weather, with the State Emergency Service receiving 50 call-outs overnight due to the havoc caused by the wild weather.

Rescuers are waiting for the weather to improve before releasing the half tonne whale back into the ocean

Rescuers are waiting for the weather to improve before releasing the half tonne whale back into the ocean

The whale is being floated in the water with a group of rescuers as they await for conditions to improve

The whale is being floated in the water with a group of rescuers as they await for conditions to improve

 

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