The sperm whale died at 11pm on Friday
The young adult male was part of a pod that became disoriented after swimming into shallow waters looking for food.
A sperm whale has died after beaching in Norfolk - and there are fears at least two more could become stranded.
The 50ft young adult male was part of a group of six spotted in the Wash at Hunstanton on Friday.
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The 50ft young adult male was part of a group of six spotted in the Wash at Hunstanton on Friday.
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It is thought he became distressed and injured his tail thrashing around in the shallow waters.
Attempts to push the whale into deeper waters failed
Rescue divers were joined by staff from RNLI, HM Coastguard and Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary - but their attempts to push the whale back into deeper waters were unsuccessful.
It is likely the whales swam south looking for food but got disorientated.
Dr Peter Evans, director of the Seawatch Foundation, said: "They feed on squid and what's probably happened is that squid came in and the whales fed upon them but ran out of food.
"The further south they got the shallower the water gets and when they got to Norfolk, which is very, very shallow, it's quite difficult to navigate and they tend to lose their way and actually strand."
It is believed the whale was from a large pod, some of which beached in the Netherlands and Germany.
"There have been 12 other sperm whales that stranded and died, six in the Netherlands and six in Germany," Dr Evans added.
"They were probably all in the same group, quite a big group which are usually adolescent males a few years old."
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