<p>is it?</p>
<p>important moral dilemmas..</p>
<p>What exactly would you do to help it? If you didn’t know what you were doing you could probably hurt it more.</p>
<p>Yes, wouldn’t you call the coast guard or whatever the equivalent is at the very least?</p>
<p>Nah…</p>
<p>Instagram it. </p>
<p>Walk away.</p>
<p>If it already has caution tape around it, it’s already dying and no one can do anything to save it. So no, it’s not bad.</p>
<p>If it looks like it was just beached call the coast guard or marine mammal rescue of some kind… or tell a lifeguard. </p>
<p>I don’t think I’d touch it. If it was a small whale, like a dolphin or porpoise I’d try to make sure it’s blowhole was clear so it wouldn’t drown or suffocate.</p>
<p>you can cuddle it as it takes its last breath.</p>
<p>Yes, if you don’t define help as “do something stupid”.</p>
<p>So apparently you think above suggestion are stupid. <em>rolls eyes</em></p>
<p>Put that whale on Facebook. Every like is the equivalent to someone pushing it back in. Duh.</p>
<p>I think actually doing anything to a whale if you aren’t a marine veterinarian is stupid. :/</p>
<p>Nah…</p>
<p>I live on the coast which automatically makes me a marine life expert. Have no fear, the local is here.</p>
<p>This thread has potential. I can see us debating whether whale-saving or, alternatively, whale-killing, looks snazzy on your college resume/police record. </p>
<p>But I like all the answers. Well done lads. Combined, your misguided efforts, tweeting, and local expertise has ensured that the whale will at least die laughing. The better question, however, is this: is it bad to see a beached human and try to swim onto the beach and help it (beaching yourself in the process)? </p>
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<p>Now, if I am not mistaken, whales are largish, whale-like leviathans. Do you really think that if you could see the beached whale, the lifeguard wouldn’t have been observing its crash-course approach for an hour! Is this a secluded beach?</p>
<p>while whales are indeed known for their large size, some are smaller. these whales are lesser known. these could also, therefore, be pulled back into the ocean (unbeached) by a handful of determined humans</p>
<p>[What</a> Is The Smallest Whale?](<a href=“http://www.whalefacts.org/what-is-the-smallest-whale/]What”>What Is The Smallest Whale? | Whale Facts)</p>
<p>Even pouring water on the whale could help as they dry out easily out of the water.</p>
<p>JuniorMint: Where I’m from there aren’t lifeguards at every part of the beach or in every tower during certain seasons. And enfieldacademy has a point, maybe the whale isn’t a blue whale? Maybe it’s a dwarf sperm whale, which aren’t much bigger than a bottlenose dolphin- therefore harder to see. It could be hidden amongst rocks. </p>
<p>UKgirl23: yes, i’ve heard that helps.</p>
<p>I should mention that all my knowledge of this subject comes from childrens’ fiction books. Mostly the Ingo series in fact.</p>
<p>I’d probably never get near enough to the ocean to see a whale anyway, beached or otherwise. I’m scared of almost everything that lives in the ocean.</p>