Disheartening video captures the moment these fishermen tried and failed to rescue a stranded whale on the coast in Quang Ngai Province, Viet Nam on Monday (February 17).

A group of fishermen are seen trying to drag the whale back into the sea, however, large waves continue to push the mammal back towards the coast.

According to local reports, the whale weighed more than 500 kilograms and was measured at about four metres long.

After the whale was pronounced dead, the fishermen carried out a local burial ritual.

Video captured the moment of the Vietnamese fishermen were trying to rescue the stranded whale on the coast in Quang Ngai Province, Viet Nam on February 17, 2020.
According to fishermen, they discovered the whale has washed ashore. The weather in the area was very bad, the waves were huge. Perhaps the whale had encountered big waves and was washed ashore. The whale weighs more than 500kg and is about 4 meters long.
In the video, The fishermen tried to take the whale to the sea. however, large waves have constantly pushed the whale back to the coast.
Whale health is very weak. It was unable to overcome the strong waves.
It is known that the whale could not survive and died. The fishermen carried out the burial of the whale according to the local ritual.
Whales are considered by local fishermen to be a sea god who can protect them. They were very sad to be unable to successfully rescue the whale.