[CINC] The whale said thank you!

[Lisa Anderson]

Thanks Rachel--brought tears to my eyes--we had a similar experience with
one of our captains helping to cut a line from a grey whale a number of
years ago--he did say the whale lice was bit much though.
Lisa

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Rachel Harris <santafina at hotmail.com>wrote:

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>      *The Whale Said "Thank You"
> *
> *If you read a recent front page story of the SF 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them,
> pushed them gently around ~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.
>
> 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.
>
> I pass this on to you, my friends, in the same spirit
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-- 
Lisa

Proud Marine Corp Mom
LCPL. Nicholas Hale Anderson
KIA 11/12/2004
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-General George S. Patton, Jr.
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