HOBART, Australia (AP) — A day after 230 whales were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, only 35 are still alive despite rescue efforts that were to continue Thursday. Half the pod of pilot whales stranded in Macquarie Harbour were presumed to be still be alive, but pounding surf took a toll overnight. Officials were going to continue to work to save the rest. The whales beached two years to the day after the largest mass-stranding in Australia’s history was discovered in the same harbor. About 470 long-finned pilot whales were found in 2020 and 111 were rescued.
Around 200 stranded whales die in pounding surf in Australia
