Scientists Seeking Entangled Whale
By Matt J. Weiss, December 27, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Jacksonville.com
A young right whale found tangled in debris off the St. Johns County coast has vanished before researchers could finish freeing it.
Researchers from Florida State University spotted the whale Friday near Crescent Beach and saw some kind of rope or line wrapped around it.
They organized a team that removed about 360 feet of line and attached a buoy with a transmitter to track the animal’s location. But the buoy isn’t transmitting, and researchers lost track of the whale about two miles east of Marineland.
They’re asking people along the coast to report the whale if they see it.
There was still some line around the whale that should be removed, said Joy Hampp, right whale project coordinator at Marineland.
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