Mystery of the missing whale: is it a Russian spy or child therapist?
Beluga with Russian harness found off Norwegian coast – but no one has publicly announced they’ve lost a whale
When Morten Vikeby saw reports that a “spy whale” from Russia had been found off the Norwegian coast, he immediately phoned his old fishery newspaper Fiskeribladet with a tip.
The amiable beluga reminded him not of a spy, he said, but of a “therapy whale” he’d seen a decade ago at a diving centre in northern Russia.
That whale, named Semyon, lived in a watery enclosure in
