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- When a call comes in, responders race to the whale’s location. They attach a GPS buoy to the whale to track its position, in case bad weather delays the rescue. Using grapples, rescuers attach buoys to the fishing gear. These floats make it difficult for the whale to dive and create drag, eventually tiring it out.
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Apr 8, 2015 · The truth is that the Free Willy Keiko rescue effort proved that relocating and retiring an orca can be done in a safe, responsible way that ends the cruelty and increases both life expectancy and quality of life.
Dec 6, 2014 · Nicknamed Ibis, the humpback was rescued by Massachusetts researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies who became the first group to successfully disentangle a free-swimming whale.
Dec 5, 2013 · This week, biologists have been working to save a pod of 41 pilot whales that are stranded in dangerously shallow water in Everglades National Park, in southern Florida. The whales are stuck in a...
Feb 10, 2024 · It was the closing scene of Free Willy, a film that captured the hearts of a generation, telling the story of an orphaned boy racing against time to free a killer whale from captivity before the creature is destroyed.
May 10, 2023 · For 40 years, the International Marine Mammal Project has led the fight to protect dolphins, whales and the ocean environment. We have achieved victories for marine mammals around the world and work to make the oceans safe for whales, dolphins and marine life.
Feb 3, 2012 · For two weeks in October 1988, much of the world became transfixed by the fate of three gray whales that had become trapped in encroaching sea ice off the town of Barrow, on the north coast of...
In the last 25 years, 92 large whales have been freed from life threatening entanglements in fishing gear. Such entanglements are threatening the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.
