Mumbai, June 26: A 42-foot –long female blue whale died after washed aground on the Alibaug beach in Maharashtra, even though valiant efforts by locals to push her back into sea.

The big female whale was first spotted on the shore on Wednesday afternoon then Forest officers immediately contacted the marine biologists to react such type of cases. It was initially alive, forest officials and people around coast are seriously tried to push her back into sea, but unfortunately it died.

Fishers man and forest official continuously tried for 10 hours to push the blue whale which has 20 tonnes weight and 40 feet length into sea when it is alive but it could not go back into the sea mainly because of its weight and size.

Chief conservator of forest N Vasudevan said that “It is unfortunate that this blue whale was beached in the shallow see and eventually died. The blue whales are the biggest species of earth, and these can grow up to 100 feet”.

He added that, this type of incidents happened, but these will go back to the sea once high wave sets in the sea, but here it was not lucky because of low tide. Later the dead whale was buried on the beach on Thursday.

As per WWF, the blue whale is the largest mammal with length 33.5 m i.e. 110 feet and female blue whales are up to 10 m longer than males. A 100 feet whale would be closer to 200 tons or 400,000 pounds.