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The National Marine Fisheries Service worked with whale watching groups and other rescue agencies, going out onto the water to take photos and videos documenting the entanglement and determining how and where to cut the wire. The whale was easy for rescuers to keep tabs on, since the wire on the whale's flukes made it hard for it to dive deep.
"We've had to be really patient and really take our time so that we could get in close proximity to get the video and the pictures and then make the cut," he said."So it's been a really long process this week, for sure." "The whale was breaching and was super surface active, and typically when they're doing those things, that can help and loosen things up," Viezbicke said."You could see the gear getting looser and looser, and finally the gear just flew off. And it was kind of a surreal moment. I think everybody on the boat cheered. I might have gotten some goosebumps."
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