Abandoned fishing equipment haunts our oceans, killing coral, turtles, sharks and whales. But in Colombia's Gulf of Tribugá, 'guardians' are on call to free entangled marine animalsAfter a day of scuba diving, Luis Antonio "To?o" Lloreda was exhausted. Then a friend brought urgent news. "To?o, man, there's a whale caught in a net out there." Lloreda, 43, had freed other, smaller wildlife from fishing nets but this would be his first marine animal of such size.The four to five metres-long juvenile humpback, accompanied by its mother, had a net studded with hooks wrapped around its fin and mouth. One wrong move could have been fatal for Lloreda or the whale.Luis Antonio 'To?o' Lloreda holds a photo of the whale he freed from a fishing net Continue reading...
One wrong move could be fatal: the divers risking their lives to save whales from 'ghost nets'
11. červenece 2025 11:46
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Zdroj: The Guardian