Gray whale safely returned to ocean after 3 days beached in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — A gray whale has been returned safely to the Pacific Ocean after it was beached for three days on the coast of Mexico’s Baja California Sur state. The federal environmental protection agency says in a statement that the whale swam into a shallow canal near Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos last Thursday and was then stranded by the ebbing tide.
Workers spent three days using pumps to keep the whale hydrated. Photos released by the agency showed them hosing it down and dig