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The grateful
whale
If you read the
front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, Dec 15,
2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become
entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.
The
fifty-foot whale 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 her tail, her torso and a line tugging in
her mouth.
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallone Islands (outside the
Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental 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 - a very
dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could 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, pushed them gently around - she thanked them. Some said it
was the most incredibly beautiful 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 in the 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.
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