On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:45:48 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:

wrote:
"Assessing the health of any animal from that distance is impossible,"
she said. "It's still breathing and still swimming."


Well, for a while it was....


What's important here is that they tried.

From a human perspective, but from the whale's perspective? Perhaps, he
was in the Thames do die in peace and couldn't understand why all those
Brits wouldn't leave him alone.