This happened several weeks ago. Rescuers tried to save the pilot whales. The bodies of dead whales present a problem for the harbor.
Excerpt: "Unfortunately, they do have a very strong social system, and these animals are very closely bonded. And that's why we have seen so many in this case unfortunately end up in this situation," Pirotta said.
And even when a whale is freed, its fate remains in jeopardy.
"They are wanting to return back to the pod. They might hear the acoustics of the vocalizations of the sounds that the others are making, or they're just disoriented and in this case extremely stressed and just probably so fatigued that they in some cases don't know where they are," she said.