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Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...

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Rescuers are working to free a whale which has become entangled in a rope on the Isle of Skye. A member of the public spotted the humpback in difficulty and contacted British Divers Marine Life ...

For Fisher, who took up rope jumping as a training exercise while playing volleyball in college, the rescue was the culmination of a lifetime of dreaming about different ways to use ropes.

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said the rope was wrapped around the whale's head and left fin. The rope is believed to have snagged on a heavy duty chain anchoring a mooring buoy to the ...

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