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- Rescuers loaded the stranded humpback whale Timmy onto a barge and sent it toward the North Sea.
- Timmy entered the barge in the Baltic, left German waters on Tuesday and will travel roughly 400 km to the North Sea.
- Environment minister Till Backhaus praised the effort as an experiment while entrepreneurs Karin Walter-Mommert and Walter Gunz funded the rescue.
- Marine scientists said Timmy’s weakened state and stress could jeopardize its survival.
