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Having deviated, far from her home in the Pacific Ocean, a gray whale was first seen these days on the French coast in the Mediterranean, as it became known by the National Network of Marine Mammals.

It is a whale about 15 months old, which has a length of 8 meters and which in recent weeks "passed" through Morocco, Naples, Rome and Genoa. He probably lost his way and found himself in the Mediterranean and now he is trying to find the right path that will lead him back to his natural environment, in the northern Pacific.

This species of whale was last observed in the Mediterranean in 2010, when it was seen twice, in Israel and Spain. This is the first time he has "visited" France, said Adrian Ganier, a veterinarian and member of the network, who observed the young whale off the coast of Borm-le-Mimosa.

The presence of the whale in these waters is completely unusual. These whales live and move between Baja California in the winter and Alaska in the summer.

"It is possible that the whale, which was born in California, lost its way to the Beaufort Sea and instead of going back to the Pacific, it took the road to the Atlantic and found itself trapped in the Mediterranean," Ganyee explained.

The whale was first spotted in Antibes and then, on Thursday, near Mandelier-La Naples. On Friday, the port of Borm-le-Mimoza managed to lead her to the open. "We accompanied her on her way west and left her a mile from Cape Bena," Ganyee said, expressing hope that the whale would continue to the Spanish coast and leave Gibraltar to follow in the opposite direction. course, this time going up the Atlantic.

"She seems to be in pretty good shape, but she is thin" because in the Mediterranean she can not find the kind of food she usually consumes, Ganyee explained.

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