Whale in the River Thames

Anyone seen this on the news??

I saw news footage at lunchtime and they were pretty amazing images, although it sounds like the whale could be in trouble if it doesn't get back into the Ocean soon.
I hope everything works out okay but it's going to be difficult.

 

They named it Steve

 

I thought they named him Phil or Phillip. Poor thing, I hope it ends up o.k. and where it should be.

 

Im sure XFM said Steve :s

 

It is Steve. Hope he's OK eventually, I'm obviously undereducated, I didn't know that the Thames was deep enough for a whale.

 

It isn't, they reckon that is why people have seen wounds at the tail end.
I hope the whale gets out okay, me and the missus were watching the news about it later and praying it will make it out safe.

 

it's 33ft long, and 8 tonesin weight! Hope it's OK.

 

I haven't heard what it's officially been called but my suggestion would be Billy, Willy's brother

Jokes aside, the news I heard this morning wasn't too good
It's still going the wrong way and at midday it could really struggle because of the tide. There is a chance it could be ill and has decided to beach itself rather then drown, but that's just speculation.

Here's a BBC news report for people to see:Lost Whale

 

I saw something about that on the news. Cool stuff.

 

I couldn't believe it! The poor thing is so lost. I think they said it was rather old and thats why its got confused. Does anyone know whether its been seen on the 21st??? Anyway hope its ok. And Steve??? why Steve as a name??? not that theres anything wrong with Steve, don't get me wrong, its just it didn't look like a Steve to me....

 

Apparently it's died. Poor guy.

 

Yeah, BBC News has it here. Poor fellow. It's probably for the best if he was sick though.

 

Very sad news

I think it was actually quite a young Whale too and I don't know if it died through stress or illness. It was a catch-22 situation I feel; if they hadn't helped it, it probably would have continued going the wrong way and beach itself, if they tried to help it out to sea there was always the risk of over-stressing the poor guy. But then again it could have been ill anyway, hence the reason why it came inland originally.

A sad ending....

 

Yes

But I'm glad to see an animal making front-page news, and to see the government spending a lot of money on rescuing it, £100,000 I believe this rescue cost.
It took half of London's emergency services to assist that Whale, in the end it was for nothing

But I'm glad they tried