Piggy, Piggy, burning bright in the forests of the night....

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There are better ones, but I'm having a terrible job trying to photobucket them from an email attachment they came in.

Below, is an account apparently in all the Aussie papers recently, of an encounter between fishermen and a whale hopelessly tangled in nets:

If you read the 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 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 rescuer.
>
>
> 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, pushing gently around-she thanked them. Some said 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.

program about them on our TV a while back.