One of 3 individuals seen in mostly flat seas in about 7800' of water.
Beached North Atlantic Beaked Whale. Continually re-stranding itself after being rescued.
Washed up in decayed state. Upper jaw broken. A calf (presumably the same species and probably belonging to this female individual) was found washed up and decomposing about 300m away on the same beach (third photo, with calf in the foreground and adult in the background).
Washed up dead and partially scavenged. Skull collected and cleaned.
Nombreuses tout autour du bateau de pêche aux turbots. // Many all around turbots fishing vessel.
Whale, small tail.
distant
Fedutin, Ivan & Meschersky, Ilya & Filatova, Olga & Titova, Olga & Bobyr, I. & Burdin, Alexander & Hoyt, Erich. (2020). Records of a New Cetacean Species of the Genus Berardius from Russian Waters. Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 46. 199-206. 10.1134/S1063074020030050.
"The individual from the Sea of Okhotsk coast of Kunashir Island that was found by the staff of the
Kurilskiy State Nature Reserve in May 2015 turned out to be a black beaked whale (sample Bsp1505, the sequence is identical to haplotype b1, according to [9]). This was an adult male (Fig. 2) whose body length from the rostrum tip to the fluke notch was 7.11 m".
Found on the beach after a storm.
Found on the beach after a storm.