FAREWELL SPIT: Rescuers defied a shark threat to form a human chain in a New Zealand bay on Saturday in a bid to keep a further 200 whales from becoming stranded a day after hundreds died in a mass beaching.

About 150 people in the human wall were also attempting to prevent some 100 survivors from Friday's beaching from returning to the shore.

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