BAR HARBOR, Maine, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A humpback whale that spent more than a day trapped in a fishing net off the coast of Maine is now free, thanks the hard of work of the Maine Marine Patrol.
Over the weekend, several of the patrol officers worked with specialists from the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts, to cut rope and slowly untangle the whale from the net. Rescuers said that one of the net's lines was wrapped around the tail of the trapped whale at least 30 times. The netting had also become entangled around the whale's head, back, pectoral flipper and through its mouth.