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A flooded barge carrying Timmy the humpback whale is pulled towards the North Sea off Fehmarn, Germany
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The plan is to use the barge and a larger tugboat, seen on Tuesday evening off Wismar, to guide the whale towards the North Sea
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The young whale, which was stranded in the Baltic Sea, can be seen in the flooded barge near the island of Poel on Tuesday evening
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Media coverage of Timmy’s ordeal and efforts to rescue the whale have gripped the public in Germany and beyond
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The whale swims into the flooded barge on Tuesday
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Members of the rescue team take part in the operation to get Timmy into the barge and begin the journey to deeper waters in the North Sea
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Rescue worker monitor Timmy from the side of the barge
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The high-stakes rescue mission is being funded by two multi-millionaires
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One of the tugboats at the rescue operation. The 10-metre long whale was quickly identified as being sick and fatigue when it got stranded off Lübeck a month ago
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German rescuers on Tuesday helped haul the stranded humpback into the barge
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The whale swims towards the transport barge. Once the barge reaches deeper waters in the North Sea, and if Timmy is considered robust enough, the whale will be released and hopefully swim further into the Atlantic Ocean
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People stand close to a stranded humpback whale in Wismarbucht
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Helpers stand next to Timmy in the water as they prepare to get the whale to swim into the barge on Tuesday. Experts involved in the original attempts to help the whale have continued to say it is sick and unlikely to survive
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The stranded humpback, covered with white blankets to protect its skin, blows a fountain in waters off Poel
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