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Divers Rescue Whale Shark Entangled in Ropes Off Mexican Coast! VIDEO!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 164 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A group of Scuba divers in Mexico rescue a pregnant whale shark from a thick rope which had wrapped itself around the animal's body.
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Gran Pat (329)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 5:59 am
What a wonderful video. Restores my faith in kindness towards animals, big and small, as shown here. Great job, divers!!!! Thanks, Cher for this.
 

Roger M. (0)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 7:50 am
Great story. Thanks.
 

Cyrille D. (69)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 9:21 am
Poor thing. What a deep scar she was left with. :( Grateful for the divers who freed her ! :)
 

Erin R. (125)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 9:42 am
Thanks for sharing.
 

Faye Swan (15)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 9:50 am
Thank you - I hope she will heal quickly!
 

Beka C. (47)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 10:18 am
thanks to divers.
 

Theodore Shayne (28)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 10:44 am
Good job guys. The are gentle but they can get pissed off too like anything else.
 

aj E. (94)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 11:17 am
wonderful.
 

Allan Yorkowitz (183)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 11:20 am
What a good feeling it must have been to see that animal released, and swim off.
 

Kye J. (41)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 12:42 pm
Well done
 

janet f. (26)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 12:46 pm
Great job...that's a very lucky animal.
 

Barbara Goheen (0)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 1:01 pm
Thanks for sharing.
 

Mary Donnelly (43)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 1:57 pm
Thanks Cher.
 

Dianne D. (419)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 2:10 pm
True hero's. Hope the whale shark survives. Wish there was a way to trace back and make responsible, those that litter like this. Hope they destroyed the rope so no other creature gets entangled.
 

Jules W. (61)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 2:12 pm
Thanks for posting.
 

Sherri O. (249)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 2:49 pm
Thanks for the good news Cher.
 

Les M. (92)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 3:22 pm
what were the ropes doing in the nature reserve?
 

Ruth M. (129)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 4:10 pm
Well done to the divers and their compassion
 

Penny AWAY FOR A WHILE (97)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 7:08 pm
Thanks.
 

Christeen Anderson (179)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 7:23 pm
Thanks for a wonderful rescue.
 

Dee C. (180)
Saturday December 8, 2012, 8:02 pm
Glad she was rescued..

Thanks for sharing this Cher..
 

Cheryl Ulrich (102)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 12:55 am
OMG that poor thing !! So glad they found her , and hope she heals well. Thanks for sharing Cher !! :D
 

Lynne B. (0)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 5:22 am
Great video.
 

Ruth S. (287)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 6:31 am
Thank God they found her!
 

Marianna B Molnar (9)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 7:21 am
great
 

Gvapo T. (15)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 9:11 am
good people (divers from vid)
I hope that the whale will be ok after all that suffering
thanks for sharing cher :)
 

Jim Phillips (2907)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 9:45 am
Awesome. Now, Mama can go her way and have a baby...

Ty, Cher.
.
 

Lisa Neste (527)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 12:12 pm
I love when people do good, makes me so happy to see. :) Thanks Cher.
 

Julie E. (203)
Sunday December 9, 2012, 3:24 pm
I agree with you Lisa.

Lucky whale.
 

Melania Padilla (133)
Tuesday December 11, 2012, 12:34 pm
Thanks, re-shared
 

Carol H. (215)
Tuesday December 18, 2012, 5:50 am
glad it ended well!!
 

Barbara Erdman (63)
Saturday February 2, 2013, 11:09 am
Noted and Thnx Cher :-0
 
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