WHALES FLAP TAILS AS RESCUERS ATTEMPT TO SAVE THEM AGAIN OFF CAPE COD, 2002-07-30 (photo)

Beached pilot whales flap their tails in the water as rescuers attempt to cool them and coax them back out to sea after a group of more than 40 beached themselves for the second day in a row off Cape Cod July 30, 2002, on sand bars off the town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Rescuers later gave up hopes of saving the whales because the animals were already tired and distressed from their hours spent out of the water during their first stranding a day earlier and approximately 25 miles southwest of their present location. REUTERS/Jim Bourg JRB/HB