Stephen van den Berg, NSRI Gqeberha duty coxswain, said: At 10h00, Sunday, 14 September, NSRI Gqeberha and the SA Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) volunteers were alerted to reports to NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) of a juvenile Humpback whale entangled ...
Kevin Warren, NSRI Gqeberha coxswain, said: At 09h06, Tuesday, 2 September, NSRI Gqeberha were alerted by SAWDN operations to prepare SAWDN (South African Whale Disentanglement Network) trained NSRI SAWDN crew and to prepare the SAWDN specialised gear and cutting equipment ...
In 2 separate whale disentanglement operations, on Saturday, West of Gqeberha, and on Wednesday, offshore of Cape St Francis, NSRI rescue craft launched, accompanied by SAWDN trained NSRI crew, to successfully carry out 2 operations to disentangle whales, a juvenile ...
A juvenile Humpback whale has been successfully disentangled from fishing rope and flotation buoys in a challenging disentanglement operation on Tuesday. ...
On Saturday, 7 June, BCMM (Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality) Aquarium arranged a local fixed wing aircraft (airborne on a flight) to scan the coastline in an effort to spot a Humpback whale trailing a large flotation buoy that had been ...
Sadly, a juvenile Humpback whale, beached at Robberg Nature Reserve, has unavoidably been humanely euthanised by marine authorities, assisted by Police, despite extensive efforts to try to save the whale. ...
A tired juvenile whale was successfully freed from an entanglement in Simonstown Harbour, at False Bay Yacht Club. ...
A concerned call from a member of the public led to the disentanglement of a juvenile humpback whale. ...
The young Humpback whale approached the NSRI rescue craft and fishing vessel IINGWANE and hung around for quite some time appearing to show appreciation for being freed. ...
On Friday, 28 June, the SA Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) received an urgent call about a whale entangled in a fishing line off Walker Bay, Hermanus. ...
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