Alan B. Mac Farlane wrote:
> The Whale
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> If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle,
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> you would have read about a female humpback whale
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> who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps
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> and lines.
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> She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused
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> her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of
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> line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line
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> tugging in her mouth.
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> A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands
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> (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help.
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> Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was
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> so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her ...
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> a very dangerous proposition.
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> One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
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> They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.
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> When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous
> circles.
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> She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and ****ged
them,
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> pushed gently around-she thanked them. Some said it was the most
incredibly
> beautiful experience of their lives.
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> The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was
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> following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.
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> May you, and all those you love,
enjoy the feast that the Fishermen had after they got this whale to
shore--yum yum...
j/k =) It really is a nice story Alan...
S~
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