{"id":3315,"date":"2015-06-05T14:26:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T14:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scotland.gov.uk\/coastal-monitoring\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2016-08-17T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:28:01","slug":"marine-scotland-assists-with-the-whale-strandings-on-skye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/marine-scotland\/2015\/06\/05\/marine-scotland-assists-with-the-whale-strandings-on-skye\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Scotland assists with the whale strandings on Skye"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Volunteers<\/a>

Volunteers keeping the whales wet until high tide<\/p><\/div>\n

Our colleagues in Marine Scotland Compliance<\/a> may not be an emergency service but they will always help out when they can, whether it’s doing search,\u00a0rescue or, in the case of the stranded pilot whales on the Isle of Skye this week, sending officers trained\u00a0in marine life rescue\u00a0to help on the ground.<\/p>\n

Officers from the Marine Protection Vessel (MPV)\u00a0Hirta<\/a> were monitoring the position at sea, whilst others from our offices in Portree, Ullapool and Campbeltown\u00a0all joined in to help.<\/p>\n

The Commanding Officer of the\u00a0Hirta, Mark Lockwood, explains what it was like from ship side:<\/p>\n

“At 0530 we received a call from Ali Jack at\u00a0\u00a0British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR)<\/a>\u00a0advising of that\u00a021 pilot whales were stranded in Staffin Bay.\u00a0We were on our way\u00a0towards Ullapool\u00a0at the time, but\u00a0 immediately diverted and made for Staffin Bay to assist.<\/p>\n

We arrived at 0730\u00a0but no contact was possible with the shore team because of a\u00a0poor phone signal, but we could see through binoculars that\u00a0four people were located on the shore treating a stranded whale (later identified as a mother with calf).\u00a0 I decided to send a\u00a0four-man team to the shore by RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat), led by First Officer Gary Adamson.<\/p>\n

Just after that\u00a0I received a call from Stephanie, who was with\u00a0a mother & calf, who reported that they had lost sight of the other\u00a019 whales,\u00a0so I tasked the RIB to find them. They began searching and just before 0800, they\u00a0located some of the whales stranded between Staffin Island and the headland.<\/p>\n

\"Heading<\/a>

Heading back to MPV Hirta<\/p><\/div>\n

During this time the Hirta was in contact with other Marine Scotland colleagues\u00a0in Edinburgh to try to\u00a0organise assistance from\u00a0trained fishery office colleagues\u00a0local to Staffin Island (Portree and Ullapool).<\/p>\n

Just after 8am, two of the Hirta crew transferred from RIB to shore to assist the divers with the mother who was calving.\u00a0Sadly, she had to be euthanized\u00a0due to a breech birth situation.<\/p>\n

Half an hour later,\u00a0a further nine\u00a0whales were sighted on Staffin\u00a0 island and\u00a0 although the whales were being freed by the teams,\u00a0they kept swimming back to the shore to find the\u00a0ones still stranded by low tide. We were advised that this is natural behaviour, as the pod will stay together in any situation.<\/p>\n

At 1000, the RIB was relaunched with\u00a0additional\u00a0people on-board\u00a0 and supplies of hot drinks for all the divers and volunteers currently at work.<\/p>\n

Mid-morning,\u00a0the Hirta received a call from the shore team requesting equipment to keep whales wet. The Hirta crew collected buckets and spare bed sheets from around the vessel so the whales could be wrapped in them. Supplies were taken to the teams on the shore too and\u00a0they were working over a difficult terrain –\u00a0 many of\u00a0them\u00a0were in the water either with\u00a0whales, or stuck in rocks with the stranded mammals.<\/p>\n

At noon, we were told\u00a0that our assistance would be appreciated until attempts could be made to refloat the remaining whales at High Water (2000) and for the remainder of the afternoon we launched the\u00a0RIB\u00a0multiple times to take crew to and from the incident. Some of the crew at this time were returning out to Staffin Island for the second time that day and all the time, we still had to bear in mind that\u00a0the Hirta crew\u00a0needed sufficient resting periods because they had carried out\u00a0navigation watches through the previous night, and would continue to do so the following night, after the incident ended.<\/p>\n

It was difficult to\u00a0keep an exact count from one end of the island to the other of how many people were involved but I think that it\u00a0 was about 50 – nine of whom were from Marine Scotland.<\/p>\n

By just after 2000, it\u00a0was confirmed that all\u00a0seven whales were successfully out of danger and the teams on Staffin Island started the clean-up operations. The Hirta RIB crew started running the teams from the Island back to Staffin Bay and by 2130,\u00a0Staffin Island was confirmed clear of all personnel.”<\/p>\n

Geoff Pringle, the Senior Fishery Officer from our Ullapool office and another one of the volunteers explained:<\/p>\n

“We received a call\u00a0at 1230\u00a0on\u00a0 Tuesday (2nd June) asking for assistance with the stranding. I headed for Skye to help out,\u00a0 along with three other colleagues.<\/p>\n

I made a quick call to the Commanding Officer of the\u00a0MPV Hirta, Mark Lockwood, to be brought up to speed, to request dry suits and equipment\u00a0 and\u00a0to arrange\u00a0for their\u00a0rigid inflatable boat\u00a0(RIB) to meet us on arrival at Staffin slipway. I also spoke to another colleague from our Portee office\u00a0who was already at Staffin to let her know that we were on our way.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0arrived and all regrouped at Staffin slipway at\u00a01600 where\u00a0we got changed in to dry suits and were\u00a0transferred onto Staffin Island by\u00a0RIB.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine the site was fairly chaotic with over 40 people on the island, split between the two stranding sites and co-ordination of the rescue was fluid. I spoke with the MPV Hirta crew and BDMLR medic Noel Hawkins, who I know personally as he is based in Ullapool, to offer our help and also to get a handle on what would be required in the next few hours.<\/p>\n

High tide was due around 20:00 so it was basically a waiting game before an attempt to re-float the animals could take place. During this time I assisted Noel and the other BDMLR volunteers keeping the whales wet using towels, buckets and also watering cans \u2013 slightly surreal to say the least! A GPS tag was also fitted to the largest animal, during which I assisted by handing equipment back and forth.<\/p>\n

Ashley, from our\u00a0Portree office,\u00a0was also actively involved in the water to such an extent that her lifejacket went off which provided some well needed light entertainment during the incident!<\/p>\n

\"Refloating<\/a>

Refloating one of the stranded whales<\/p><\/div>\n

Once the tide was full it was all hands to the pump as the\u00a0six remaining animals all had to be floated off at the same time and held in the water until they had sufficiently recovered.<\/p>\n

Once released, attempts were made to stop the animals coming back ashore by co-ordinated splashing and\u00a0running the\u00a0MPV Hirta RIB between the animals and the shore. It was fantastic to see all\u00a0four of the animals that our group were involved with heading past the north end of the island and back into the open sea.<\/p>\n

Once the rescue was completed, we assisted with the evacuation of the island by carrying equipment back to the disembarkation point.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was\u00a0a very humbling experience to witness first hand, with so many people working so hard for upwards of 36 hours to achieve such a positive outcome. And\u00a0after a lift back to Ullapool on the MPV Hirta, I went straight back to my rather more mundane daily work.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to the effort of a number of people and organisations who helped out,\u00a0it was confirmed that between the previous night\u2019s refloating attempts and the attempts from that day, 14 whales out of 21 were saved.\u00a0Strandings of this size thankfully don’t occur very often but when they do, Marine Scotland are happy to play a part to help out.<\/p>\n

We have a number of staff who have undertaken specific training with the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) to make sure they are ready and capable\u00a0of assisting in these types of operation. The\u00a0training involves lectures on cetacean identification, first aid and medical care for cetaceans, large whale disentanglement, and information on the equipment and methods used to release stranded mammals. For those working on our vessels, they are given training on\u00a0how the MPVs and\u00a0RIBs can best assist\u00a0in similar incidents in the future. Unlike the\u00a02 ton ‘Training Whale” that’s used during the course, colleagues got to handle the real thing this week.<\/p>\n

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