Desperate Whale Gets Needed Help From Divers

So when this diver helped a distressed humpback whale who was in a bad situation, he received the most unexpected and wonderful expression of gratitude!

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Four members of the Whale Entanglement Team approach a whale to cut blue steel lines that have prevented the animal from eating and thereby losing weight.

When a whale in distress meets a team of volunteers, magical things can happen on Monterey Bay.

Four members of the Whale Entanglement Team approach a whale to cut blue steel lines that have prevented the animal from eating and thereby losing weight.

At about noon on Sept. 13, the crew and passengers of the Blue Ocean Whale Watch boat, which operates out of Moss Landing Harbor, spotted bunches of humpbacks a few miles off the shore of Moss Landing. Kate Cummings, one of the boat???s owners and a naturalist, was narrating through a PA system what animals the passengers were seeing.
Then she saw one whale acting oddly.
???Humpbacks do chin-slaps, when they come halfway out of water and crash down on their chin,??? she says. ???This one was doing it in weird angles. First it wasn???t clear what was happening, so we got closer. That???s when we saw line wrapped around its head and through its mouth.???
The whale was tangled up in spotted-prawn lines ??? lines that were attached to 25 spot prawn traps anchored to the bottom of ocean. It was struggling to keep its head above water by ???skulling??? with its pectoral fins, a sort of desperate motion akin to a tired person treading water.

When a whale in distress meets a team of volunteers, magical things happen on Monterey Bay.

Line believed to have come from Waverider buoy

Rescuers free entangled whale near Point Pinos

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Line believed to have come from Waverider buoy
Trained volunteers from the Whale Entanglement Team (WET) were able to free a humpback whale that was found Thursday in Monterey Bay struggling in line that was believed to have come from a Waverider buoy approximately 25 nautical miles from Point Pinos.

WET members are trained and respond under the auspices of NOAA’s Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program.
Peggy West-Stap, executive director of Marine Life Studies and a founding member of WET, said the entangled whale was discovered Oct. 24 by the crew of the Santa Cruz-based Shana Rae, which had been dispatched to check the Waverider buoy.

WET analyzed an entanglement video captured on an underwater camera, which revealed a severe tail entanglement at the fluke insertion with substantial necrotic tissue. Whale lice were present and the skin on the body indicated poor health overall, Stap said.

The team devised a plan that involved two cuts on the line wrapped around the whale. After the cuts were made the entanglement slipped off and the whale swam away.

“The feeling of joy I felt the moment when the final cut of the line was made and the young whale swam free was something I could not put into words,” Stap said. “It was amazing to know our efforts as a team gave this whale a renewed chance to be a productive member of the local population of endangered humpback whales.”

WET is a group of 30-plus volunteer professionals assembled and trained for the purpose of disentangling whales. Most of WET’s core members have direct affiliations with other conservation organizations.

Rescuers free entangled whale near Point Pinos

A humpback whale entangled in fishing gear swims near the ocean???s surface in 2005. (NOAA/Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary)

Untangling Both a Whale and Why Marine Life Get Mixed up With Our Trash

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Sadly, a humpback whale swimming in the blue waters off of Maui, Hawaii, got first-hand experience with this issue in February 2014.

Luckily, trained responders from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary were able to remove the long tangle of fishing rope wrapped around the whale???s head, mouth, and right pectoral fin.
According to NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries:

“A long pole with a specially designed hook knife was used by trained and permitted personnel to cut through the entanglement.

Hundreds of feet of small gauge line were collected after the successful disentanglement. The entanglement was considered life threatening and the whale is confirmed to be totally free of gear.”
Check out these short videos taken by the response team for a glimpse of what it???s like trying to free one of these massive marine mammals from this debris:

Humpback Whale Cut Free from Marine Debris – Maui 02.19.14 (Part 1)

Humpback Whale Cut Free from Marine Debris – Maui 02.19.14 (Part 2)

Humpback Whale Cut Free from Marine Debris – Maui 02.19.14 (Part 3)

While this whale was fortunate enough to have some help escaping, the issue of wildlife getting tangled in marine debris is neither new nor going away. Recently, the NOAA Marine Debris Program and National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science reviewed scientific reports of ocean life entangled by marine debris in the United States. You can read the full NOAA report [PDF].
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Untangling Both a Whale and Why Marine Life Get Mixed up With Our Trash

Don’t Kill Whales for Oil

Obama: Don’t Kill Whales for Oil

Imagine a Big Oil and Gas company has moved into your neighborhood. They’re looking for oil using seismic surveys — firing off a deafening airgun every 10 seconds for weeks on end. It’s louder than a jet engine, causes deafness, injury or death, and the government is allowing the company to deafen or injure as many as 138,000 of your neighbors.
For whales, dolphins and sea turtles living off the Atlantic Coast, the Obama administration has just made this nightmare a reality.

Last week, the government opened up offshore waters from Delaware to Florida to oil and gas exploration, including the use of seismic surveys. Oil and gas companies may be applauding, but thousands of marine animals will pay a terrible price.

Blasts from seismic survey airguns generate some of the loudest sounds in the ocean. They cause hearing loss, death and disorientation in marine mammals like whales and dolphins. The government has already acknowledged that the blasts will hurt 138,000 marine mammals, including some of the last remaining Atlantic right whales on Earth.

This is unacceptable.

Take action today and tell the Obama administration: Don’t kill whales for oil. Imagine a Big Oil and Gas company has moved into your neighborhood. They’re looking for oil using seismic surveys — firing off a deafening airgun every 10 seconds for weeks on end. It’s louder than a jet engine, causes deafness, injury or death, and the government is allowing the company to deafen or injure as many as 138,000 of your neighbors.

For whales, dolphins and sea turtles along the Atlantic Coast, the Obama administration has just made this nightmare a reality.

Last week, the government opened up offshore waters from Delaware to Florida to oil and gas exploration, including the use of seismic surveys. Oil and gas companies may be applauding, but thousands of marine animals will pay a terrible price.

Blasts from seismic survey airguns generate some of the loudest sounds in the ocean. They cause hearing loss, death and disorientation in marine mammals like whales and dolphins. The government has already acknowledged that the blasts will hurt 138,000 marine mammals, including some of the last remaining Atlantic right whales on Earth.

This is unacceptable.

Take action today and tell the Obama administration: Don’t kill whales for oil. Center for Biological Diversity Petition.

Dozens of frustrated onlookers jumped into the surf to try to save a beached humpback whale after repeated attempts to rescue the 15-20 tonne mammal at Palm Cove had failed throughout the day.

A 15-20 tonne whale was freed on Palm Beach, Queensland on Wednesday afternoon but then was soon washed up again.

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2685232/A-bad-week-wheels-Operation-remove-THIRD-beached-humpback-stranded-Gold-Coast-shoreline.html#ixzz3701m6TPN