Whale Timmy swims around freely, but rescue operation ends with a bitter aftertaste: “A crew member said: ‘Finally that damn animal is gone’”

He swims and is free, but the liberation of humpback whale Timmy still resonates. Where there used to be euphoria, now only reproaches arise. Vets were deliberately sidelined, crew members thought Timmy was a ‘rotten animal’ and two financiers distanced themselves from the way the whale was released: this all went wrong.

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