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Just east of the Farallon Islands
(outside the Golden Gate), on the humpbacks' usual migratory route, a
fisherman spotted a 45- to 50-foot female humpback,
estimated to weigh 50 tons.
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.
The fisherman radioed an
environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and
determined that she was so snarled, the only way to save her was to dive in
and untangle her.
They worked for hours with
curved knives and eventually freed her. This daring
rescue was believed to be the first successful attempt on the West Coast to
free an entangled humpback.
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 were thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful
experience of their lives.
The man who cut the rope out
of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never
be the same.
We at Goodcopy hope that you
and your family are privileged to be surrounded by people who will help you get
untangled from the things that are binding you and that you always know the joy
of giving and receiving gratitude.
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