Re: Fw: the whale WONDERFUL STORY!!! maggie/ true, too!

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Margaret, I can attest to the accuracy of this story; I live practically onSan Francisco Bay, and this story waws in the news until the whale wasuntangled and freed, having been fed!Love and thank you,n, who lives across San Francisco Bay in Oakland, CaliforniaTo: ine Breytenbach ; "MSersLife " <MSersLife >Sent:

Fri, February 18, 2011 1:22:37 PMSubject: Fw: the whale WONDERFUL STORY!!! maggie

Hi everyone, I thought that you might like this story. Margaret A. Cote

It's true.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_humpback_whale.htm

The Whale... you may have read about a female humpback whale that had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines offshore near San Francisco. 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.

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 in the same spirit.

Fall seven times, get up eight.~Japanese Proverb