When one or more whales or dolphins become stuck, either dead or alive, on dry land or on rocks at the edge of the sea.
When a marine organism gets stuck on the beach or in shallow water. For cetaceans there are strandings of individual animals, often attributed to death in the water or sickness, and also mass strandings, the causes of which are often not well-understood.
The act of a cetacean coming onto land, either alive or dead.
the coming to land, either dead or alive of a cetacean.
The act of coming on to land, either alive or dead, intentional or accidental, of cetaceans or sirenians.
The accidentally coming ashore either dead or alive by cetaceans. Some cetaceans, like bottlenose dolphins and killer whales, are known to strand deliberately to pursue prey.