Italian coast guard divers worked throughout Sunday to free a sperm whale caught in fishing nets.
The whale became entangled in nets in the waters …
Italian coast guard divers worked throughout Sunday to free a sperm whale caught in fishing nets.
The whale became entangled in nets in the waters surrounding the Aeolian Island archipelago. Boaters on Saturday spotted the whale struggling and contacted the coast guard.
Video shared on the coast guard’s official twitter shows the organized efforts by divers and biologists to free the whale by cutting the lines with knives. The operation to free the sperm whale was complicated due to “its state of agitation,” which prevented the divers from continually working on the lines, the coast guard said Sunday.
