Sea Shepherd will carry out research to find the humpback whale in the Seine

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Departing from Ouistreham (Calvados), on the morning of Thursday October 17, 2024, the Walrus, NGO boat Sea Shepherd will stop at Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) this evening to refuel. Friday October 18, 2024, research to find the humpback whale reported several times in the Seine in recent days will begin.

No new reports of the humpback whale since Wednesday

There are six of them on board the Walrus. Thomas Le Cozthe captain, will join them on Friday October 18, 2024 in Le Havre. “Then our first mission will be to locate the humpback whale,” he explains to 76actu.

The latter, seen several times near Le Havre in recent days and Rouen on Wednesday 16, has not been seen for several hours.

What would be great is if she returned to her natural environment, all alone. Unfortunately, the last report is towards Rouen, so it is not in the right direction for that

The six members of Sea Shepherd will work with “the authorities and scientists on site. Our common goal is that it join the sea as quickly as possible. »

“We hope she is still in good health”

Once spotted, the urgency will also be to ensure the good health of the cetacean. “We will exchange our information with scientists. The longer she stays in the Seine, the more dangerous it is for her health,” explains the captain.

Another mission of the NGO: “to ensure that no boat comes touch herin this place of significant maritime flow, this is obviously what we can also fear. »

A Sedna operation with a less tragic outcome hoped for

The president of Sea Shepherd, Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd, insists 76actu: “we all remember what happened to the orca in 2022, found dead near Rouen,” she regrets. The conclusions of the necropsy (equivalent to an autopsy for an animal) had in fact revealed that in addition to an ammunition found in her body, she was starving.

Baptized Sedna by the NGO, the orca has also given its name since “to all research missions like that of this humpback whale. » The same year, a beluga died after also remaining in the Seine.

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