Sailor saves a whale trapped in a fishing net

[glorybebe]

This brave sailor dived off the side of a cargo ship to save a whale that had got stuck in a fishing net.

In astonishing video footage, the crew of the Bahamas-registered Cheikh El Mokrani can be seen gesturing at each other on deck as the whale writhes in the waters below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4430536/Sailor-saves-whale-trapped-net-jumping-ship.html

That is quite thd jump!  Great guy to risk husband safety to save the whale.

[Still Waters]

It's good what he did, well done that man 

My husband was telling me about this this morning after seeing it online, he couldn't get over the Daily Mail referring to the whale as a 'giant fish' 

[glorybebe]

Yeah.  I kinda changed it on here because I didn't want to detract from the great thing this man did.   in this day and age mixing up fish and whale