Source: www.grindtv.com --- Thursday, July 28, 2016
Surfers in Kingscliff Beach, Australia helped save a stranded baby humpback whale on Wednesday. Beached on the rocky shoreline, surfer Blair McDonald and his friend Dylan Masarin were two of the first to come across the calf. RELATED: Dramatic photo shows massive shark dangerously close to surfers As he told The Coffs Coast Advocate , “We knew we were short on time because the tide was coming out and it was getting shallower and shallower, and the whale kept getting itself more and more bogged and getting itself cut up.” A fisherman, a few other surfers and some passing-by workers grouped together to get the whale back to its mom who was past the lineup pacing. They looped a rope around its tail to drag it back out. “We actually ended up dragging it around the rocks and once we got it into deeper waters, we thought it was all good and then up the beach it beached itself again,” McDonald said. A second attempt was made with the rope with a similar outcome of the calf beaching itself. “We dragged it out again and it turned around and beached itself again; obviously it was confused and hurt,” said McDonald. They were on the phone with Seaworld who advised them to wait for them to get there. But McDonald and Masarin knew they couldn’t risk the mother whale leaving: “We just decided to band together because we were racing against the clock and the mother was pacing up and down and we knew if she left the calf it had no chance, we just ...
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