The struggling animals were recently encountered off the northwest tip of Canada's Vancouver Island.
Meet Narwhal, an adorable rescue dog from Missouri who happens to have a very unusual appendage.
A family in the Netherlands has been rescued after being kept in a secret room waiting for the end of the world.
The exhausted canine was pulled from the sea by oil rig workers who had spotted him off the coast of Thailand.
The curious spiny mammals had ended up drunk after sampling a bottle of eggnog that someone had dropped.
A new lifesaving drone has already proven its worth after rescuing two swimmers off the coast of Australia.
A YouTube prankster had to be rescued by the fire service after his latest stunt went spectacularly wrong.
A man in Norway ended up stuck after climbing in to a lavatory to retrieve his friend's mobile phone.
A sick worker has had to be rescued from a remote research station in Antarctica in the middle of winter.
A woman had to be rescued from the ocean after swimming for several hours in pursuit of a cruise liner.
An 18-month-old child was saved after rescuers discovered she was trapped inside a submerged car.
An attempt to 'run' from Florida to Bermuda in a plastic bubble didn't go quite according to plan.
Firefighters were called in to rescue two people after their home was invaded by giant hornets.
A young girl's life was saved when a school of dolphins lead a research team to her location.