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Posted at March 28, 2012, 5:53 pm: A friend just sent me this story, and I checked it with snopes and found that it's true. It's so cool, I had to share it: At about 8:30 AM on Sunday, 11 December 2005, a crab fisherman working the open waters east of the Farallon Islands, about 18 miles off the coast of San Francisco, spotted a whale that had become entangled in the nylon ropes that link crab pots. The whale was a female humpback, about 45 to 50 feet in length and weighing an estimated 50 tons, who had likely become snared while traversing the humpbacks' usual migratory route between the Northern California coast and Baja California. A rescue team was hastily assembled, and by 2:30 PM divers had evaluated the situation and determined that the imperiled whale was so badly entangled in the crab pot lines that the only way to save her was to dive beneath the surface and cut the nylon ropes that were ensnaring her. As James Moskito, one of the rescue divers, reported: "I was the first diver in the water, and my heart sank when I saw all the lines wrapped around it," said Moskito. "I really didn't think we were going to be able to save it." Moskito said about 20 crab-pot ropes, which are 240 feet long with weights every 60 feet, were wrapped around the animal. Rope was wrapped at least four times around the tail, the back and the left front flipper, and there was a line in the whale's mouth. The crab pot lines were cinched so tight, Moskito said, that the rope was digging into the animal's blubber and leaving visible cuts. At least 12 crab traps, weighing 90 pounds each, hung off the whale, the divers said. The combined weight was pulling the whale downward, forcing it to struggle mightily to keep its blow-hole out of the water. Four divers spent about an hour cutting the nylon ropes with a special curved knife, a risky undertaking since a single flip of the gargantuan mammal's tail could easily have killed any of them. Eventually they freed the humpback, a feat that a representative of the Marine Mammal Center (MMC) in Marin County described as the first successful attempt on the West Coast to free an entangled humpback. The divers told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter that the whale seemingly thanked them for its deliverance once the rescue operation was complete: When the whale realized it was free, it began swimming around in circles, according to the rescuers. Moskito said it swam to each diver, nuzzled him and then swam to the next one. "It felt to me like it was thanking us, knowing that it was free and that we had helped it. It stopped about a foot away from me, pushed me around a little bit and had some fun. It seemed kind of affectionate, like a dog that's happy to see you," Moskito said. "I never felt threatened. It was an amazing, unbelievable experience." Whale experts say it's nice to think that the whale was thanking its rescuers, but nobody really knows what was on its mind. "You hate to anthropomorphize too much, but the whale was doing little dives and the guys were rubbing shoulders with it," Mick Menigoz said. "I don't know for sure what it was thinking, but it's something that I will always remember. It was just too cool." Original of the message was taken from http://www.movieforums.com/community/ Replies:That story pwns Free Willyheh! empty post Quote: Originally Posted by SmegFirk ... Quote: Originally Posted by SmegFirk ... Im also slightly confused. Quote: Originally Posted by 7thson Uh, Im con... fine *mumble* I will host it myself *grumble* Ahhhh, whale tale, i get it now. I'm not getting the whale tail. The thong shape, it's like the tail of a whale. Other Topics of Movie Forums:26th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards (2006)Slither Countdown to Superman Returns Worst movie since Chronicles of Riddick...A Violent Past Jackass: Number Two Movie Club Poll - Back In The Habit Your favorite movie scenes of all time... Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz Bruno Kirby, R.I.P. Too Early for Christmas! Gandhi Site Upgrades MinionChat - Come On In! The Benchwarmers (Napoleon Dynamite 2) Better film? X-Men 3 or Superman Returns Did Anyone See BRAVO'S 100 Funniest Movies? Is Anyone Pi**ed Off? Who owns an iPod? Missing MoFos Name Some of Your Favorite Soundtracks La Haine - practical spirituality keeps you from staying soiled? What was the last DVD you bought and why? Ghost Watch Police Squad!: The Complete Series on DVD November 7th Finally Got My Movies Up on the Internet Loose Change Creative Commons movies Cannibal Holocaust / Justified Filmmaking? India's 'Superman' - Krishna leaps into action R.I.P Eddie Guerrero Whats the best movie ending of all time? Your Final Film Eragon Movie Club: The New Batch Top Drug Movies Comparing Todays and Yesterdays Need a little girl advice Black Hawk Down and LOTR Dvd questions The MoFo Personal Pictures Thread |