[quick_vegetarian] The Whale (Very good)

Tue, 09 May 2006 20:43:18 -0700


The San Francisco Chronicle,
wrote 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 tightly wrapped around her body,
her tail,
her torso,
and another line tugging inside her mouth.
 
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands
(outside the Golden Gate Bridge),
and radioed an environmental group for help.
 
Within a few hours,
the rescue team arrived and determined that she was
 so bad off that the only way to save her
was to dive in and untangle her ...
 
 
...a very dangerous proposition...
 
...as one slap of a whale's tail can kill a rescuer.
 
 
 

But they worked for hours,
with curved knives,
and eventually freed her.

When she was free,
the divers say she swam around
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...
and then she very clearly thanked them.
 
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
 
 
The diver who cut the rope out of her mouth says that
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 ... 
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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