{"id":29745,"date":"2018-01-18T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=29745"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:15:24","slug":"rescuers-remove-285-feet-line-from-whales-mouth-off-maui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2018\/01\/rescuers-remove-285-feet-line-from-whales-mouth-off-maui\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers Remove 285 Feet Line from Whale&#8217;s Mouth Off Maui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019ve had a run of whale stories in <\/em>Cruising Compass<em>. Last week we linked to a story about a whale in Tonga protecting a SCUBA diver from a marauding tiger shark. And this week, rescuers off Maui managed to save a whale that swam close to shore with 285 feet of 3\/8-inch braided line tangled in its mouth.\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0For cruisers, the sight of a whale at sea is \u00a0thrilling. And knowing that at some level we have a symbiotic relationship is kind of cool, too.\u00a0 Read the story below and click on the link to see the full slide show of the underwater rescue.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; An adult humpback whale is free after swimming in Maui waters entangled in rope.\u00a0According to NOAA officials, the large whale was first reported entangled on Thursday by the captain of a fishing vessel.<\/p>\n<p>A trained response team soon deployed and used a small inflatable craft to approach the animal. Officials said the whale became &#8220;very active&#8221; upon their initial approach, so they waited for it to calm down before attempting to remove the braided rope. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiinewsnow.com\/story\/37264707\/photos-whale-freed-from-entanglement-off-maui\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a run of whale stories in Cruising Compass. Last week we linked to a story about a whale in Tonga protecting a SCUBA diver from a marauding tiger shark. And this week, rescuers off Maui managed to save a whale that swam close to shore with 285 feet of 3\/8-inch braided line tangled in its mouth.\u00a0\u00a0For cruisers, the sight of a whale at sea is \u00a0thrilling. And knowing that at some level we have a symbiotic relationship is kind of cool, too.\u00a0 Read the story below and click on the link to see the full slide show of the underwater rescue.\u00a0 &nbsp; MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; An adult humpback whale is free after swimming in Maui waters entangled in rope.\u00a0According to NOAA officials, the large whale was first reported entangled on Thursday by the captain of a fishing vessel. A trained response team soon deployed and used a small inflatable craft to approach the animal. Officials said the whale became &#8220;very active&#8221; upon their initial approach, so they waited for it to calm down before attempting to remove the braided rope. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29747,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29745\/revisions\/29747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}