It will first be collected and then transported for disposal in an incineration and co-incineration plant. The sperm whale beached in the seaside village of San Giovanni di Sinis for two weeks, now rotting, will be removed starting tomorrow.
The mayor of Cabras decided this with a specific ordinance regulating the operations to be followed. An intervention that is not simple and expensive: the removal of the carcass will cost the municipal coffers around 7 thousand euros . In fact, the animal cannot be transported offshore as has already happened in the past: it is located in a point where mechanical vehicles would have difficulty passing.
The area where a specialized company will operate, and therefore where the remains of the stranded sperm whale are present, will be fenced off to prevent people from approaching. The small sperm whale washed ashore in San Giovanni di Sinis last February 28th. Having died a few days earlier, probably due to the impact with some boat, the cetacean had been dragged to shore.
As indicated by the mayor in the ordinance, the seabed with rocky banks and the adverse weather and sea conditions did not allow the execution of removal and sinking operations at sea. It was the Port Authority, last March 4th, that requested its urgent removal. Then the local health authority certified that the specimen did not show symptoms of communicable infectious diseases. And now there will be removal. The mayor announces that he will write to the next councilor for the environment to ask him to set up a regional plan that allows action to be taken not occasionally when the problem arises, but following a specific process. In Sinis, in fact, it is not the first time this has happened. But not only on the Cabrarese coast. A few days ago the same thing happened in Bosa, on Turas beach. After several days the carcass was removed with a crane. Yesterday, however, the carcass of a dolphin was pushed onto the beach of Arborea.