Norwegians rescue entangled pilot whale

When fisherman Sverre Dag Pettersen of Romsetfjorden, Norway went down to check his nets on Tuesday morning (9 August 2005), he got much more of a "catch" than he had bargained for. Pettersen found an "unusually large whale" entangled in his salmon gear.

He called on both the Norwegian Coast Guard and the local police for help in rescuing the whale.

The coast guard responded by sending a vessel, the KV Sjovenen, to the site of the entanglement. Fisheries Officer Njal Rokenes reported that the whale was tired, and that it took a crew of three men in an inflatable to cut the animal loose.

Subsequently, the whale -- which measured more than five meters in length -- was identified as a pilot whale, or "grindhval" in Norwegian.

Source: www.wdcs.org