14 DAY TRIAL // This past Wednesday, greenheads working with Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol's Marine Animal Release Team rescued a humpback whale that had somehow got caught in a shark net and was unable to free itself.
Sources say that, when the Australian rescue team reached the whale, the latter was swimming fairly close to the country's Gold Coast.
By the looks of it, the whale was nearly exhausted. Hence the fact that it did not try to run away from or attack its rescuers.
“The animal was tired which was good because there's less danger to the crew,” rescuer Mark Saul reportedly told the press.
“The net was tangled around the head, pec fin and tail. We were able to free the tail and the head and then just cut away the material on the pectoral fin, and the animal swam away freely and in good health,” he added.
Apparently, it took less than 15 minutes for Mark Saul and his colleagues to cut the shark net and free the whale. Check out the video above to see how the rescue operation unfolded.