The Whale
If you read the front page story of the SF
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 Farralon
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 ...
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A very dangerous proposition.
One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
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 gently around-she thanked them.
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful
experience of their lives.
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The guy who
cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was
following him the whole time, and he will
never be the
same.
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