Privately funded rescue frees beached humpback Timmy, released into the North Sea
A privately funded rescue ferried a beached Baltic humpback calf nicknamed Timmy to the North Sea in a flooded barge and released him near Denmark, where he swam away with a tracker. Experts had warned the animal was severely compromised and survival was unlikely, and the IWC criticized the rescue as inadvisable, but the incident drew national attention and public support while Denmark said it would not intervene if Timmy stranded again.