Great whale rescue story

The Whale... If you  read a recent front page story of the San  Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about  a female humpback whale who had become entangled in  a 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 Farallon 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. 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 as she was thanking them. Some  said it was the most incredibly beautiful  experience of their lives. The guy who cut  the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never  be the  same.