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A Beautiful Humpback Whale Rescue Story

Category: Animal Stories

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Dear Friends,

Below is a beautiful story of the rescue of a Humpback whale off the coast of
northern California. I believe the story is an example of how animals feel and express emotions.  Please let us know what you think or feel after reading this story. You can also listen to one of our animal songs for kids about humpback whales. It's called "The Most Incredible Songs" and is on our CD
IF I WERE A FISH and Other Ocean Songs for Kids.
You can hear it on our song sample page by CLICKING HERE.

Enjoy!

-Birdsong

 

 

If you read the front page story of the "San Francisco Chronicle",
in December, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback
whalewho 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 Farralone 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 ...

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.

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.

"It felt to me like it was thanking us, knowing that it was free and that we had helped it," said James Moskito;
of the rescue divers.  "It stopped about a foot away from me, pushed me around a little bit and had some fun."


 

 

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About this Page: Below is a beautiful story of the rescue of a Humpback whale off the coast of northern California. I believe the story is an example of how animals feel and express emotion. . . It felt to me like it was thanking us, knowing that it was free and that we had helped it, said James Moskito; of the rescue divers. It stopped about a foot away from me, pushed me around a little bit and had some fun.