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Successful refloat of a young minke whale in Skye, October 2000.
Rescue news archive
The CRRU team can be kept very busy during the year with call-outs to marine wildlife in trouble. The majority of cetacean strandings tend to occur during the harsher winter months, but wildlife casualties can occur year-round and the team are on call 24 hrs a day to assist with advice, assessments, diagnoses, first aid and specialised rescue equipment as required.
The following links detail some of the team's more "memorable" call-outs over the past decade (as there are far too many to recount) :
Rescue Stories
Minke whale trapped in Fraserburgh harbour
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01/08/2007
Atlantic white-sided dolphin stranding in Crovie
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21/03/2006
Live harbour porpoise stranding, Fraserburgh
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09/02/2005
50 tonne sperm whale stranding, Isle of Lewis
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07/12/2004
White-beaked dolphin stranding, Aberdeen
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16/10/2003
Dolphin mass stranding in Shetland
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30/08/2003
Firth of Forth humpback call-out
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16/02/2003
White-beaked dolphin stranding, Leith
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11/07/2002
Hooded seals released from Caithness
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03/02/2002
Crovie white-beaked dolphin stranding
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04/12/2001
Leatherback turtle in the Firth of Forth
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15/11/2001
Mass dolphin stranding at Brora
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07/10/2000
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