South African rescuers on Thursday freed a nine metre (30-foot) humpback whale that was entangled in seven fishing ropes north of Cape Town. The juvenile whale was found south east off Dassen Island near Yzerfontein with its mouth snared by one heavy rope. “We had to first cut away the…
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