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Article: Nine Whales Die on Cape Cod Beach
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- July 29, 2002
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DENNIS, Mass. (AP) _ More than 50 pilot whales beached themselves
on a stretch of Cape Cod sand Monday and nine of them died before
vacationers and other volunteers could push the animals back out to
deeper water in a feverish rescue effort.
Hundreds of vacationers lined a quarter-mile of Chapin Beach and watched
as rescuers tended to the small, glistening black whales, first discovered
stranded about 6 a.m.
One of the whales was dead when rescuers arrived, and another was
euthanized after it went into shock, said Sallie Riggs, director of
Cape Cod Stranding Network. Seven others died after spending hours
in the hot sun. The carcasses were taken away ...