Whale done! Baltic stray makes a splashing escape, swims free again

A humpback whale, after a days-long ordeal in shallow Baltic Sea waters near Wismar, has finally swum free. Rescuers employed an excavator to aid its initial escape, but the exhausted giant later corrected its course away from a harbor. Experts now hope the whale, lacking a tracking device, can navigate its way back to the Atlantic.

By TOI World Desk