February 22, 2015 — Officials say a 45-ton humpback whale entangled with fishing line in Hawaii waters for more than a week is finally free.
The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary said Saturday that its craft got within 10 feet of the mammal a day earlier and the crew used a pole equipped with a knife to saw the line free.
Ed Lyman of the sanctuary says several hundred feet of line was cut away.
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