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A Story of True Love
Posted on Apr 29th, 2006
by 
Dancer
Dancer
I just got this from a friend who has been helping me to get unravelled from amny of the issues what are holding me down. I had to pass it on.
The Whale: A Beautiful Story
If you read the front page story of The San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday,
Dec. 14, 2005, 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, pushed them 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.
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 friend, in the same spirit.
The Whale: A Beautiful Story
If you read the front page story of The San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday,
Dec. 14, 2005, 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, pushed them 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.
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 friend, in the same spirit.
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