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Volunteers and workers from various conservation groups re-floated the nine-metre juvenile whale, helping it to re-enter the Coolongolook River near Forster on Sunday April 12, 2026, but it became stranded on a sandbar by the following afternoon.

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00:00A humpback whale was freed from a sandbar on the New South Wales mid-north coast on Tuesday, April 14th,
00:072026.
00:08Volunteers and workers from various conservation groups re-floated the 9-metre juvenile whale,
00:15helping it to re-enter the Koolongalook River near Foster on Sunday,
00:19but it became stranded on a sandbar by the following afternoon.
00:23The team then spent the following morning helping it to navigate its way back into open water.
00:49I'm coming up to the end.
00:53Only a couple metres.
01:00Come on!
01:03Come on!
01:04Stop, stop, stop.
01:05We're moving!
01:07Come on!
01:08Yes!
01:09Come on!
01:10Okay, release! He's released!
01:12I'm going to go around.
01:13Yep.
01:15That's good. Perfect.
01:16All right, he's going to be on that deep edge.
01:18Careful, lad.
01:21Watch that flute, Beno.
01:22Yeah, I'm not.
01:22Stop, lad.
01:36Yeah, come on.
01:38That's good.
01:38Fair night.
01:46Come on!
02:02Good, that's the right way too
02:03Marine rescue, just a heads up, we're on our way, your way
02:07The animals are swimming freely, so we're going to try to guide it
02:15Yeah gotcha
02:17Yeah, just here
02:20Bruh
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