SEA ISLE — A dead humpback whale washed up Friday afternoon in Sea Isle City near 20th Street.
The whale was sighted off Strathmere’s coast earlier in the day and floated down to Sea Isle City later, according to The Press of Atlantic City.
The Marine Mammal Strand Center is on the scene, and workers are preparing to remove the whale from the beach with a piece of heavy equipment, according to the report.
The whale is reportedly a young male that weighs about 20 tons and is around 33 feet long.
The cause of death was not immediately clear Friday afternoon. The animal will stay on the beach overnight, and the center will perform a necropsy to determine how the whale died, a process that could take up to eight hours, the report stated.
Adult male humpbacks can grow up to over 40 feet long and weigh between 25 and 40 tons.
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