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...The Whale...  If you saw a recent front-page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider's web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was  the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Beautiful Story of a Rescue

What a wonderful story! And there are people who say that animals have no feelings or emotions. How wrong they are.

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Re: Beautiful Story of a Rescue

That is such an amazing story and I actually cried reading it. There are some amazing human beings out there who truly care for our precious animals. Thank you for sharing this heartwarming story.

 

I only wish our fishing practices were changed so things like this wouldn't happen.