Canadian Navy Stages Rescue For Trapped Humpback Whale

They called it Operation Free Willy, of course. A Canadian warship freed a humpback whale that was entangled in fishing gear on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland on Wednesday. HMCS St. John's was on a routine fisheries patrol when it received a radio message from a nearby fishing boat that a whale was in distress. The 10-metre-long animal was thrashing on the surface as it tried to free itself from ropes and a large orange buoy snagged in its tail...