On Valentine’s Day 2011 Michael Fishbach, co-founder of the The Great Whale Conservancy, and his family and a few friends came across a young humpback whale entangled in a type of gillnet that is used by local fishermen.
Michael Fishbach spends two months in the Sea of Cortez every winter photographing blue, finback and humpback whales to help track of these magnificent animals across our oceans while observing their complex behaviors in the wild.
After a heroic and exhausting effort they were finally able to successfully free her. As a show of shear joy, and possibly a display of gratitude to her rescuers, the young Valentina danced along side their boat for the next hour.
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