Rescuers attempt to keep a pod of more than 40 beached pilot whales
alive and coax them back out to sea off Cape Cod after they beached
themselves for the second day in a row, July 30, 2002 on sand bars off
the town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Rescuers hopes of saving the
whales dimmed because the animals were already tired and distressed
from their hours spent out of the water during their first stranding
one day earlier and approximately 25 miles southwest of their present
location. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

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