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00:02Yesterday in collaboration with the New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Services,
00:05the Foster Dive Centre and the team from Orca,
00:08the SeaWorld Foundation was able to assist a large humpback whale
00:11that was stranded on a sandbar in Wallace Lake.
00:14SeaWorld has a long history of managing whales that become beached and stranded.
00:19The crew was well equipped to manage this episode.
00:22So what we did was we placed a couple of large slings around those massive pectoral fins
00:27and then used our boat to tow the animal off that bar.
00:31We were able to get the animal free swimming.
00:33It's a mammoth job to try and remove a 10-ton animal back into deeper water
00:37and we couldn't have done it without the New South Wales Parks and Wildlife Services,
00:41the team from Orca, as well as the Foster Dive Centre,
00:45who all helped to manage that animal and get it back into a free-swimming state.
00:49The whale is still there this morning, so we hope with a few more high tides
00:52that he will be able to navigate his own way out of the lake
00:56and back into the ocean, but it's just a matter of it finding its way out now.
01:00And it's like a fictional animal.
01:03Childish datas are in the museums, so we have known the animal who's now
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