Whale Rescue -A Story of Blessing

If you read the front page story of the SF Chronicle today?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. 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 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 we all be so blessed and as fortunate in the New Year----to be
untangled from the things that we think are binding us. Happy 2006!!!

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