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09-30-2010, 09:55 AM
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 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/...y?cat=806&o=40 "...The Whale... If you read a recent front page story of the San Francisco Chronicle, you would have read about a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same. May you, and all those you love, be so blessed and fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you. And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude. I pass this on to you, my friends, in the same spirit."  http://www.facebook.com/rick.iossi#!...5606709&ref=nf
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10-06-2010, 08:41 PM
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Golden cownose rays as far as the eye can see or put another way, skating through group sex? Looks like Photoshopping but understand it is not, this is they way they skated by. Cownose? Who hung that name on this guys?
 "Golden Ray photos of amazing mass migration By Nick Allen Published: 4:00PM BST 24 Jun 2008 Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters. Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks. She said: "It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind. "It's hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand. "We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too. "I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at his best." Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays. They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance. Despite having poisonous stingers they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools. The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan."    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ear...migration.html
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FKA, Inc. transcribed by: Rick Iossi Last edited by admin; 10-07-2010 at 08:24 AM.
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