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HAVING harboured a fondness for dolphins since a young age, and being on the lookout for a porpoise in life, I jumped at the chance to train with the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team and become a fully fledged marine mammal medic, someone who will be called upon should any dolphin, whale or seal be in trouble on the shorelines around Dorset.
AN autopsy is now under way on Gilbert the whale, a female northern bottlenose, who has been found washed up dead on a Bournemouth beach.
Gilbert, the northern bottlenose whale spotted off Bournemouth beach, seems perfectly happy.
AN ANGLER claims it was no surprise Gilbert the whale died – because Bournemouth Bay is almost blocked off with nets.
TESTS are going on to find out what killed the six metre long whale which had been delighting spectators in Bournemouth.
THE autopsy results on Gilbert have so far proved inconclusive.
GILBERT the whale put on a spectacular display off Bournemouth beach on Friday and appears to have developed a pattern to his behaviour.
HE’S Dorset’s newest tourist attraction – but visitors have wisely been keeping their distance from the whale that has spent the last few days swimming off the resort’s coast.
CONSERVATIONISTS are urging people not to approach a whale that has been spotted off the Bournemouth coast.
Three people thought they saw a whale near Bournemouth pier yesterday, and have already named it Derrick.
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