Whale gets caught in journey boat anchor for hours in southeast Alaska
A humpback whale became caught in an anchor line on a tiny journey vessel in southeast Alaska, removing stranded for roughly 12 hours while sovereign authorities and a boat’s crew worked to giveaway it.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries says eventually a anchor sequence was cut in hopes the whale could squirm loose.
The sequence was wrapped around the whale’s reduce jaw.
The group says a group saw a whale, believed to be a one that had been entangled, swimming away.
NOAA Fisheries says whales were bubble-net feeding nearby the anchored vessel south of Juneau early Sunday when one strike a vessel and got wrapped in a anchor line.
Agency mouthpiece Julie Speegle says a ship’s crew appropriately responded to a entanglement.
Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whale-entangled-cruise-ship-alaska-1.4267285?cmp=rss