Instead of helping the whale, she morbidly observed his slow death and wrote the essay with numerous inaccuracies about strandings and stranded whales. The whale should have been saved, the data showed that a humpback could last at least 3 days fully stranded and do not incur irreversible damage.<p>Instead of doing pointless thigs like whispering to the whale, they should have poured water on him to help with overheating and design the rescue plan.<p>Absolutely horrid essay.<p>Links: EH humpback story with data on internal organs state after 3 days on the beach (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strandednomore.org&#x2F;eh-humpback-whale&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strandednomore.org&#x2F;eh-humpback-whale&#x2F;</a>)<p>Cases where people actually helped whales instead of morbidly gawking at their demise (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strandednomore.org&#x2F;8-documented-cases-of-stranded-whales-and-dolphins-that-survived-stranding&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;strandednomore.org&#x2F;8-documented-cases-of-stranded-wha...</a>)