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Entangled New Zealand Orca Rescued! 

8/9/2014

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A big well done to the rescue team, led by the Orca Research Trust, who helped to free an orca entangled in a cray pot today off the coast of New Zealand.

Video (c) Young Ocean Explorers:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=694827170611352&set=vb.595052893922114&&theater

More information (with photo) on the orca cray pot line entanglement rescue in New Zealand, via the Orca Research Trust:

Today, at 11am Dr Ingrid Visser received a call from Bob Brook that he and his crew had found an orca entangled in a cray pot line. He remained with the orca for the two hours it took for Steve Hathaway, Dan Godoy and Ingrid to arrive on the scene. Keeping the orca afloat were other members of its pod, including its presumed calf. Ingrid has identified the orca as Dian, named after the famous gorilla researcher, Dian Fossey. Dian the orca was entangled in a line approximately 40 m long, attached to a ‘pot’ used for catching crayfish. The pot was weighted with concrete blocks of about 35 kg. Dian remained calm during the disentanglement and she was successfully released and followed for a number of kilometres afterwards, to ensure that she was ok and remained with the other orca. If you see orca in NZ waters please call 0800 SEE ORCA. Thank you to everyone who helped save her and good luck out there Dian!
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