The Collaboratory’s Jean Robertson sent this story. I searched and found: - The Urban Legends Reference Pages, which says this story is: TRUE. (not including my word ‘resurrected’) - The Original Article Fimrite, Peter. “Daring Rescue of Whale Off Farallones.” San Francisco Chronicle. 14 December 2005.

If you read the front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec 14, 2005, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a 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, and 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, pushed them gently around. 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.

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.

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Jean added:

May your own Easter story be one of resurrection from entanglement.

P.S. Jean is hosting introductions to the Collaboratory – evolving stuck systems through interpersonal and intrapersonal awareness:

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