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The two-year-old female calf had been stuck in the tidal lagoon after her pregnant mother was stranded and later died on a sandbar.

Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.

The original Terminal Island had been nothing more than a glorified sandbar known as Rattlesnake Island, named for the animals that washed into the harbor during heavy rains.

Police and wildlife officials began trying to free the male whale from the shallow sandbar off the beach in Venice on Sunday morning.

He says he searched for a year, on beaches from Myanmar to the Maldives, before finding his first piece, from the rear stabilizer of the plane, on a sandbar in Mozambique.