No-Swim Advisory Lifted After Dead Whale Removed From FL Beach: Police

VENICE, FL — One day after a dead beached whale was removed from a Venice beach, a no-swim advisory for the area was lifted Wednesday, authorities said.

The beached 70,000-pound sperm whale stranded at the Service Club Park beach last weekend was first spotted Sunday morning and died Monday.

The no-swim advisory was put in place Monday by the city of Venice’s emergency management department for beaches from Caspersen to the South Jetty because of “possible increased predation activity” in the area, Venice police wrote in a Facebook post.

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The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration completed a necropsy of the whale Tuesday.

After the necropsy, the whale was towed about 15 miles into the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday afternoon by Sea Tow Venice, police said.

The advisory was lifted Wednesday after a full tidal cycle passed since the dead whale was removed from the area.