                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, April 4, 1996                TAG: 9604040388
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

WHALE'S DEATH INVESTIGATED

ILLUSTRATION: Photo by CHARLIE MEADS, The Virginian-Pilot

Susan Barco of the Virginia Marine Science Museum stranding team

discusses with spectators the possible causes of a 23-foot-long

humpback whale's death. The whale became stranded on a Chesapeake

Beach sandbar Tuesday and was towed to First Landing/Seashore State

Park Wednesday for a necropsy. It's possible the young whale became

lost and couldn't survive.

by CNB