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Humpback Whale, by Wikipedia
If you read 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 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
bad 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.
