Volunteers sing to stranded whales as attempts are made to push them back out to sea.
Hundreds of pilot whales are dead after a mass stranding at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay.
The stranding is thought to be the third biggest in New Zealand's history.
Aerial footage shows the scale of the whale stranding at Farewell Spit
Rescuers were successful in refloating all of the remaining live whales, but there was a risk the whales would strand again.
More than 400 pilot whales have become stranded at Farewell Spit in Golden Bay.Project Jonah general manager Darren Grover says they will be focusing their efforts on today's mid morning high tide when they will try and get the healthy whales back out.Hundreds of pilot whales have died after a mass stranding on Farewell Spit.There's no one reason why whales become beached.
'What they're doing is milling around so we won't know until mid-afternoon whether we're going to have a restranding or not,' DOC Golden Bay operations manager Andrew Lamason said.
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The stranding is thought to be the third largest in New Zealand's history.
