The hostility between the east and west has reached new heights of absurdity! The Russians, known to use whales and porpoises in their spying activities, wired a Beluga whale with a Go-pro and turned him loose in Norwegian waters.
The suspected beluga whale Russian spy, Hvaldimir, was found dead September 1st close to Risavika, on Norway’s south-western coast. Animal rights groups claim he was found with multiple gunshot wounds.
“He was sociable, playful and fond of humans,” said marine biologist Sebastian Strand, who saw the animal’s white body floating in Norway’s Risavika Bay on Saturday afternoon. “It’s far younger than we had hoped,” he said in a telephone interview.
Beluga whales live 30-50 years, so Hvaldimir, believed to be 13-14 years old, died at an age when his hormones ran rampant like any teenager. For this reason, it is believed that human activity did not directly kill him. Police said that Hvaldimir also had some superficial injuries, but there was no evidence of him being shot.
The equipment read “equipment of St Petersburg”, a former capital of Russia, so naturally the Norwegian authorities concluded the Russians drafted Hvladimir as a spy. Russia has a history of training animals for military purposes.
Hvladimir captured global attention five years ago, when Norwegian fishermen noticed the whale swam while strapped in a harness that read, “Equipment St. Petersburg.” The politically correct Norwegians nicknamed him “Hvaldimir,” a combination of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first name and the Norwegian word for whale, hval.
The whale first approached the boats in April 2019, which caused confusion because it’s not common to see Beluga whales that far south. It has not yet been confirmed if the whale was a spy, but speculators say that is the most likely probability from multiple investigations on the whale’s body.