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The whale before release in the North Sea

Video. Timmy the humpback whale presumed to have died

Updated: 06/05/2026 - 16:56 GMT+2

The entrepreneur-funded rescue effort said that it had fitted the previously stranded whale with a tracking device but this is suspected to be untrue.

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