1. Do not panic

 2. Verify if the cetacean is always alive. In most of the cases, the operation is easy(well-to-do): either the animal still moves or it begins to decompose. However, if the animal does not move any more, but seems healthy, its approach has to be made of face. At this stage(stadium), avoid the tail which could abruptly hurl severe knocks. Try to perceive(collect) some breath; it can take a dozen minutes or more still, according to the sort. Meanwhile, look at eyes, without any time get(touch) them. If these last ones are opened and if the animal is alive, they should follow the movements of a finger slowly moved in their field of vision. Be however careful that the cetacean does not run(drive) on you or that it is not pushed on you by waves.

 3. Note carefully the position and indicate immediately the grounding to the local body asked to register(record) this kind(genre) of incident  ,if you are certain about the death of the animal. This body will take in hand the continuation(suite) of the operations. In case of doubt, call the police, the nurses coasts, the members of staff of a museum or even the office of local tourism. In numerous regions, the law forbids to damage any animal or to extract from it however fragment it is without the preliminary license. The recollections of the event thus have to be reduced to photos or to drawings. However if there is no means to contact proper authorities, if the tide is about to take the corpse or if circumstances make that nobody will arrive in time to make the necessary observations, untangle you to realize recording so complete and so precise as possible. Photos are ideal: they supply enough information to identify the animal and the site of the incident. Clichés(pictures) are have to be "artistic". Sensibly distributed, they have to include one some standard of measure (a person, an object or even a shoe) by known size. Two photos will be perpendicularly taken in the animal (one for every sides), revealing all the length of its body. Photograph then the head, the dorsal aileron (if there is one there), the tail and the pectoral fins. Try to realize close-up of possible marks(brands), scars or parasites. Do not forget to include in the one or other one of your dump characteristics of the local landscape so as to identify exactly the site of the grounding. If you have no device photograph under the hand, note the same information on a pad or on a paper, by serving you as a some standard of measure (steps or piece of ropes for example). Make a sketch of the corpse and put back your measures there. If possible, bury the corpse (the head, at least) indeed over the high-water mark and note its exact position with regard to point of reference distributed in the landscape. Attention: "steles" made by sticks or by stones fascinate apparently the walkers, who hurry to destroy(annul) them or to move them. If the burying shows itself impossible, the taking of the head will be very useful, but the lower jaw (or one of its jaws), a tooth or a plate of baleen are generally enough. It is possible to define the sex of the animal if the stomach of this last one is visible _ the urogénitale crack of the male(mate) is for some distance of the opening anale; that of the female appears to prolong the opening of the anus. In case of doubt, realize a sketch. Indicate immediately your discovery to proper authorities and leave them your coordinates in case they would wish additional information.

 4. If the animal is alive or if you are not certain about his(her,its) death, look of the help(assistant) as quickly as possible, having taken carefully note of the size, the state and the position of the victim. The difficulties of bailing out(refloating) grow with the duration of the grounding. If you have to leave the cetacean for quérir some assistance(audience), make all that you can to relieve his(her,its) martyr. So, raise and prop up him(it) so that his(her,its) évent never fills(performs) with water; free(clear) the neighborhood of objects or stones which would risk to damage the skin; try to wrap(surround) the body in a wet and fresh(cool) coverage (wet bath towels or algae, by examples).

Pay attention not to block(surround) the évent, usually situated above the skull: the introduction of water in this leads(drives) was provoke the drowning of the animal; that of sand would damage lungs. Let penetrate into nothing into eyes. By waiting for the help, maintain the animal at the cool, quiet and reassured. Cetaceans are built for the aquatic life and their physical temperature rises very quickly year one earth ( ground ), even yew the time is not for the warmth. Their system of thermal regulation is situated in purposes: these structures must be thus refreshed first and foremost. Let them soak into some water filling ( performing ) holes which you will have dug in the sand. The skin of cetaceans is particularly fragile and dries out very quickly in the air(sight) (sight ): all his (her, its) area ( extent ) must be constantly moistened. To disturb ( disorder ), the animal risks to roll one him even and to insult itself _ now to hurt ( damage ) the persons whom it finds one its road. All the " rescuers " have to behave thus necessarily calmly, by trying to calm have much have possible the object of their care. They should rather get organized in teams coordinated by has " boss of beach ". For example, has group could take load(responsibility) of the refreshment of cetaceans; other one would keep at has respectable distance the spectators; others else would be allocated to the recording of the physical measures now to the reassurance of the victim. The teams should be raised ( found ) regularly, to avoid the get tired of rescuers and to allow the other volunteers to contribute to the bailing out ( reflo. The " boss of beach " withdraw will in the arrival of the experts. Yew these last ones are in roads, resist to the temptation to was able to back (to hand) the animal to the water _ you could hurt ( damage) him ( it ) unintentionally. Yew it is clear that you are delivered to you even, it is carefully necessary to you to estimate the situation:

 (a) If you are alone, hopeless(only one, hopeless,only, hopeless) to receive from the help(assistant) and if the animal is too impressive to be easily lifted(raised), it is nothing that you can make, to reduce the discomfort of the cetacean; note a maximum of information and put back(hand) them as quickly as possible to proper authorities. At least, these data will not be lost.

 (b) If the size of the animal exceeds the capacities of the available means, once again resign to reduce the sufferings of the cetacean, to collect the maximum of information concerning him(it) and to pass on this one immediately.

 (c) If the available means seem to you sufficient(self-important) to lift(raise) the animal and if the state of the sea offers no danger for rescuers, get then ready to go into action. Distribute the tasks of each, inquire about the hours of tides to choose the convenient moment and assure(insure) you that he(it) stays enough time to end the work in the light of day. If the ambient temperature is weak it is sometimes preferable to put back(to hand) the operation the next day.

 (d) Before bailing out(refloating) the animal, photograph him(it) or note the characteristics there in the same way as you would have operated with a dead cetacean. Note the particular marks(brands) which would allow to identify him(it) again _ in sea or on a beach

 (e) The bailing out(refloating) requires(demands) a maximum of precautions. Fins cannot be pulled(fired) nor pushed: fragile, these structures fall to pieces easily. The skin is also delicate: it is thus necessary to use a sort of ventrière capable of supporting(bearing) the mass of the body without tearing the skin. The animal will be lifted(raised) and put down on this structure, unless this last one is slowly slid under the body. The cetacean will then be transported in the water, until a sufficient(self-important) depth to support(bear) its own weight. The ventrière will be untied(removed) only when the animal will be manifestly capable of moving by itself. Watch that this one does not fall over on the side and that his(her,its) évent does not fill(perform) with water. The cetacean can make of a certain steepness after its stay on the beach; he(it) needs to be supported a while in the water (cliffs round off to allow him(her) to surmount this difficult moment). Never seize the animal by its fins or by the tail; grow known sides or on the dorsal base of the aileron.

 (f) If the cetacean persists in returning towards the bank, or if it seems incapable to swim in spite of all your efforts, the attempt of bailing out(refloating) is devoted to the failure(defeat) and must be abandoned. Arrange the animal on the beach in a most comfortable possible way.

 (g) Never try to kill the animal to abbreviate its sufferings. Only an expert can realize this operation: the anatomy and the physiology of a different cetacean strikingly of those of the ground mammals. You would risk to increase still the torture of the animal by not finding directly its vital organs. Resist to the temptation to execute him(it) by balls _ these last ones would be very probably diverted by the shape of the skull and they could rerelease from the body and hurt(damage) spectators.

 5. While a solitary cetacean is often too weak or too sick to swim, it is likely that the great majority of the members of a group of failed animals will be healthy and bailings out(refloatings) (if they are not too heavy to treat(manipulate)). But attention: the social links unite all these creatures are extremely solid. Force one or two individuals to deviate from the bank while their congeners are still on the sand risk to become a particularly difficult operation. The number of failed specimens also raises problems. The situation imposes the creation of numerous, well organized teams, working under the direction(management) _ even on distance, by telephone _ of familiar experts with the social orders of the implied sort. Equipments of lifting and their manipulation usual will be you of a priceless help if he(it) is free for you to make quickly ventrières capable of supporting(bearing) the mass of the animal and stiff enough not to crush bodies during their transport. The best strategy to be adopted in case of collective grounding seems to be the following one:

 (a) Estimate the resources in terms of rescuers and available equipments. Spread(display) the material and organize teams in the tasks defined well, steered by the competent leaders. Assure(insure) the communications between the various teams and the " boss of beach ». Establish(constitute) groups of recover and foresee the supplementary display of new teams and equipments.

 (b) Try to prevent animals still in the water from running aground in turn _ not by gesturing or by leading big noise, but by grouping together(by including) (by means of persons or of boats) these creatures in a shallow and sheltered place.

 (c) Put back(Hand) to the water animals failed with their congeners still in stream.

 (d) Drive(Guide) the group completely towards the wide.

 (e) It is faster said that made! However, the big assemblings of cetaceans often consist of more restricted subgroups, the members of which are united by very solid social links. If they can be identified each of these subgroups will be treated(handled) in his turn, by beginning with the one who contains animals least got(touched) and easier to treat(manipulate). If the dominant male(mate) is isolated (in case of doubt, try the most massive specimen) and then put in safety(security), his(her) congeners (and his(her) subordinates) will sometimes follow the movement. If need be, prevent these "leaders" from returning towards the bank by attaching them with precaution to a boat and assure that their évent is constantly appeared.

 Never pull(fire) a cetacean by the tail: his(Her,Its) évent will meet itself under the water and the animal will drown itself. Most of the sounds emitted(uttered) by these creatures establish(constitute) very narrow acoustic bundles. A leader must be transported in the water so that the head stays always in front of bank, so allowing his(her) subordinates still failed to continue to hear(understand) its signals.

 (f) By waiting to be bailed out(refloated), the failed animals require all your attention _ the priority going to those susceptible to be saved. We often say that the execution of specimens impossible to treat(manipulate) facilitates the return in the water of the others. This option is to be thrown back(to be rejected,to throw back,to reject), unless an expert is spot.

 (g) The difficulties aroused by a collective grounding do not have to make forget the acquisition of a maximum of data concerning animals resting(basing) on the bank. Do not omit to count specimens, nor to clarify their position. Also try to realize a report as clearly as possible of the event, by specifying the order of arrival of the various members of the group in trouble. This information contributes to the identification of the subgroups and their leader. Let us note that very few reports of collective grounding reached us, probably because all the persons present tried hard to help animals. Nevertheless, if we knew the beginnings of these incidents, we could discover it factors susceptible to raise the class(course) of the events. The press and the others media are particularly useful here, if you explain to the journalists the kind(genre) of information which you wish.