{"id":679672,"date":"2026-05-19T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679672\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:09:09","slug":"rescue-group-frees-humpback-whale-in-happy-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679672\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue Group Frees Humpback Whale in Happy Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/humpback-rescue.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Rescue Group Frees Humpback Whale in Happy Adventure\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The humpback recently freed by the Whale Release and Strandings group (submitted photo)<\/p>\n<p>The whale rescue season is off to an early start with a humpback freed from a herring net in Happy Adventure last week. <\/p>\n<p>Wayne Ledwell of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whalereleaseandstrandings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whale Release and Strandings group <\/a>says the animal had busted free of the mooring of the herring net, and towed the net out into the bay where it must have gotten hooked in something else. <\/p>\n<p>Ledwell admits, freeing the whale wasn\u2019t easy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard whale,\u201d Ledwell laughs thinking back on it. \u201cThe headrope of the gillnet was through its mouth and the rest of it was a jumble of floats and the lead rope and the twine was around its side fins. That\u2019s a particularly sensitive area for the animal, around their side fins. So, it was a job for us to get close to it. It kept turning around on us, and you know, trying to smack us and that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It took about five hours, but they finally managed to get the animal free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The humpback recently freed by the Whale Release and Strandings group (submitted photo) The whale rescue season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-679672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}