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rescue of Timmy the whale ‘an all-round catastrophe’ over deficient tracker Marine biologists and whale experts have [stepped up their criticism](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/rescue-stranded-timmy-whale-germany-inadvisable) of a privately funded
fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany A last-ditch effort to rescue a wayward whale that has transfixed Germans for weeks has begun in the Baltic Sea despite criticism
rescue was funded by two German millionaires who commissioned a massive, water-filled barge to transport Timmy to freedom. [ after being transported there in a water-filled barge by rescuers.  and Sweden
rescue initiative. Later, however, it emerged that a tracker intended to monitor Timmy’s progress was not working. In a joint statement earlier this month, Walter-Mommert and her co-financier, Walter Gunz
funded the rescue were delighted the whale had been saved from shallow waters near the island of Poel where it had spent the past 29 days. "I can't even say how happy