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Bayard

(22,063 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2019, 03:27 PM Dec 2019

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Bruised Humpback whale cut free by divers

This is the amazing moment a humpback whale is cut free by divers from an enormous fishing net that has become tangled around its body.
Captain Faizel and Dive leader Jeannot filmed the rescue mission with a head-mounted GoPro as they helped the whale in Trinidad.
The divers had spotted a calf jumping frantically in the distance and swam over to investigate.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409595/Humpback-whale-cut-free-brave-divers-enormous-fishing-net-tangled-round-body.html

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Bruised Humpback whale cut free by divers (Original Post) Bayard Dec 2019 OP

Bravi! MineralMan Dec 2019 #1

Those guys are heroic. Disaffected Dec 2019 #2

Wow no kidding man jcgoldie Dec 2019 #3

OMG, fantastic! These guys are heroes! MoonRiver Dec 2019 #4

that's gutsy -- whale seemed to figure it out near the end Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #5

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)

1. Bravi!

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Thu Dec 5, 2019, 03:46 PM

Dec 2019

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)

2. Those guys are heroic.

Reply to Bayard (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 07:34 PM

Dec 2019

They could have died in the attempt (and that is what happened to a rescuer off the east coast a while ago).

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)

3. Wow no kidding man

Reply to Disaffected (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 07:44 PM

Dec 2019

I mean first it drug them down 30 meters... I can't believe they were able to keep up with her!

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

4. OMG, fantastic! These guys are heroes!

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Thu Dec 5, 2019, 08:11 PM

Dec 2019

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,340 posts)

5. that's gutsy -- whale seemed to figure it out near the end

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Thu Dec 5, 2019, 10:43 PM

Dec 2019

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