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German authorities deploy vessels to encourage humpback whale departure near Wismar coast on March 30.

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Emergency response teams are actively approaching the area off Wismar with boats as part of an operation designed to motivate a stranded or entangled humpback whale (Buckelwal) in the Baltic Sea region toward voluntary release into open waters by late afternoon today, marking what officials describe on March 30th and earlier reports call "the decisive day" for determining if the animal still possesses sufficient energy.

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    German authorities are deploying boats near the coast of Wismar to assist a humpback whale in leaving its current location.
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    Officials describe this event as an 'decisive day' and have attempted to encourage the whale's departure by afternoon.
Mar 30, 16:25 Deployment forces approached humpback whales near the coast of Warnemünde in Germany.
Mar 30, 14:59 Whale-watching boats were deployed along East Coast waters for a second time to monitor and encourage movement from stranded animals toward open water by late afternoon on March 28th near Wismar. The operation involved multiple vessels.

Deployment forces are once again approaching the humpback whale in front of Warnemünde with boats.

— [Mar 30, 16:25] Buckelwal in der Ostsee: Einsatzkräfte naͤhern sich erneut dem Buckelwal vor Wismar (Newsfeed.zeit.de)