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.

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 ~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
The best part of this story is that it is true!

Confirmed to be true at snopeshttp://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/whalethanks.asp

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