MELBOURNE BEACH -- A 7- to 8-foot whale that beached itself on the shore of a Melbourne, Fla., beach Thursday and then disappeared by into the surf has once again beached itself, according to Local 6 News.

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Men Attempt To Rescue Whale

During heavy downpours, four men held the pigmy whale steady while the bluish-gray creature wiggled about in the sand, just south of Spessard Holland Park.

A rescue crew from SeaWorld was been called to attempt to help the whale that is beached at the 2900 block of State Road A1A in Melbourne Beach. However, the whale swam back out into the turbid ocean as state biologists and rescuers from SeaWorld arrived.

The whale, lying right-side up, had what appeared to be some slight scratches but otherwise appeared lively and alert, witnesses told Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

Pigmy whales, which can grow more than 12 feet long and weigh 600 pounds, usually die when they beach themselves.

"My guess is that it will come up again sometime tonight or tomorrow," Megan Stolen, a biologist for Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in Orlando, said today. "So everybody's on standby until then."

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