Osotogary
06-23-06, 11:29 AM
This was passed on to me and I thought that it would be a good read.
If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle recently, you would have read about a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a heavy 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 environmentalist 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 ... it was a
very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail by a possibly anxious whale
could quite easily 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
gently around – all the swimmers said that there was no doubt in their minds
that she was expressing gratitude. Some said it was the most incredible
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.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate ...to be
surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
Have a good day, a good weekend.
Gary
If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle recently, you would have read about a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a heavy 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 environmentalist 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 ... it was a
very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail by a possibly anxious whale
could quite easily 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
gently around – all the swimmers said that there was no doubt in their minds
that she was expressing gratitude. Some said it was the most incredible
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.
May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate ...to be
surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
Have a good day, a good weekend.
Gary