Western Standard - October 24, 2022


Whale's majestic move brings dramatic end to marine rescue off Canada


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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

151.30861

Word count

370

Sentence count

23


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In this episode, I talk about a rescue of an animal that was lost in a remote area of the desert. This animal had been missing for two days and had three companion animals with it. The team was able to locate the animal with the help of a satellite tag on the trailing gear.

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00:00:00.000 This animal we'd been trying to locate for two days. It had been seen, you know, periodically
00:00:17.840 showing up in one area and traveling a lot of ground. And they were able to put a satellite
00:00:22.960 tag on the trailing gear, which was really important because then we knew where the animal
00:00:28.400 was. And they were able to stay with the animal, able to get myself and my team there. So when we
00:00:33.680 saw the animal and we realized, oh my gosh, it's not just one animal. It had three companion animals
00:00:39.760 with it. So we were like, wow, this is something that we've never encountered.
00:00:50.240 We worked for four or five hours on this animal and methodically kind of went through. And again,
00:00:56.080 with having three other animals with this animal, it was quite challenging.
00:01:08.160 First of all, we throw up a drone. We always get a gear configuration just to make sure it's safe. And
00:01:12.960 we really want to make sure we're, if we're making cuts, we're making the right cuts. Because if you
00:01:17.520 make the wrong cut, the animal can be in worse shape and we can't get another working line on.
00:01:22.400 We put additional, a little bit additional drag on that blue line that had the still,
00:01:28.960 the line going through the mouth. And the animal, which was just magnificent, we put this drag on
00:01:36.800 and we were going to work up further. But the animal sensed that little bit of drag and it did,
00:01:42.000 it did kind of a, basically a spy hop and a back flip. And all the gear came flying out and
00:01:51.360 the animal took off with its companion animals. And we were able to follow it with the drone and just
00:01:57.200 confirm the animal was gear free. And it was very energetic after it took off. And it must have felt a
00:02:04.720 sense of relief with not all that drag on it. So it was just, the team was overwhelmed with that,
00:02:10.480 with just happiness. It was, it was just amazing. And again, this only was successful because people
00:02:16.320 called it in multiple times and we were able to, to keep on top of that and eventually find the animal.