Im still drying my eyes.... and wanted to share this extraordinary connection of gratitude .
If you read the front page story of the San Fransisco
Chronicle on Thusday, 15 Dec 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
100s of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle
to stay afloat. She had 100s 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 few
rescuers. 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 say 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.
Casey Baugh
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