Today's bit of happy: Diver frees entangled orca (+vid)

[Dead_Parrot]

A young Hahei man rescued an exhausted and bloody orca yesterday after it was entangled in a cray pot.

The orca was discovered tangled in rope and cray pots several hundred metres off the Coromandel Coast yesterday afternoon.

"It had cuts all over its head from the rope… and down the tail there were a few rope burns and I could see blood from where the rope was," said Rhys Cochrane, who went to the whale's rescue.

Cochrane's family diving business had received a call from the Department of Conservation telling them that the mammal was in distress and needed to be let free.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/6381508/Diver-frees-entangled-orca

[virgogal]

1. Nice story,thanks. I just saw "Big Miracle" about a whale rescue in Alaska.

[ellenfl]

2. well done. eom