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The whale rst showed up a few weeks ago when it swam up to Joar
Hesten’s shing boat. Hesten got in touch with the authorities, who
were interested, because Hesten was o the northern coast and whales
don’t often show up there this time of the year.
“We asked him if he could just try to have it around his boat until we
arrived,” Joergen Ree Wiig, an inspector at the Norwegian Directorate
of Fisheries, said on Tuesday. That wasn’t hard, it turned out.
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“The whale was really friendly, came up to us and started opening its
mouth, checking us out,” Wiig said. “We were trying to talk to it. It was
really friendly. It was seeking contact with us.”
Hesten and Wigg obliged, and then they turned the harness over to the
police, because the nearest St. Petersburg to Norway is in Russia. The
thought occurred to people that they might have some kind of Russian
spy whale on their hands. The harness held a camera mount, so the
thought was not entirely outlandish.
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On the other hand, it didn’t entirely make sense, either. The lettering
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on the harness was in English, not Russian, and used the Roman
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On yet another hand, Russia does have spy whales, although it’s not
claiming this one just yet.
“As to Russia’s North ... I was told that Russian scientists are using
beluga whales for tasks of civil information gathering, rather than
military tasks.”
Exactly what the di erence might be, the colonel didn’t say. In any
case, the Norwegian police security service, PST, took custody of the
harness, presumably to try to track down its origin.
“They collected it from me an hour ago. They said they would look into
it,” Wiig said. PST did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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A white whale wearing a harness is seen next to a shing boat o the coast
of northern Norway, April 29, 2019. Jorgen Ree Wiig/Sea Surveillance
Service/Handout/NTB Scanpix via REUTERS
“The beluga whale has been spotted again in the area. We are very
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concerned that it is not able to feed itself,” he said, adding that the
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Keiko was an orca who had been captured and tamed and starred in the
1993 Hollywood movie “Free Willy”.
He was set free o Iceland in 2002, and visitors would come from far
a eld to spot him in a particular fjord on Norway’s northwest coast.
But things did not go well. Keiko was unable to re-adapt to the wild,
and died o the coast of Norway in 2003.
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