On the morning of August 23, 2017 on a beach in Buzios, Brazil, residents saw a whale have xevrastei in the sand because of the sharp drop in level of the tide.

Hundreds of people rallied quickly to try to save the cetacean, a whale of 14 meters and weighing about 15 tonnes. They dug to carry water on it so you do not dehydrate, and then an excavator helped the animal to get back in the water.