{"id":747502,"date":"2026-06-19T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747502\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:23:09","slug":"whale-freed-from-gear-after-nearly-pulling-crab-boat-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747502\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Freed from Gear After Nearly Pulling Crab Boat Down"},"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\/06\/st-johns-harbour-narrows.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Whale Freed from Gear After Nearly Pulling Crab Boat Down\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The St. John&#8217;s Narrows (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Whale Release and Strandings Group was involved in freeing an entangled whale that nearly pulled a fishing vessel under. <\/p>\n<p>Julie Huntington told VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that they were called by the crew of a crab boat near the Narrows that got caught between a whale and the gear it was towing. <\/p>\n<p>She describes it as a very tense situation. <\/p>\n<p>Huntington says the crew was able to get clear of the gear by letting go of the vessel\u2019s stabilizer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boat started twirling around and the crew was fast-thinking and they had to release the stabilizer\u2026and chain into the ocean to get clear of that whale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says the job of freeing the whale from the gear it was towing took several hours, and was complicated by another whale which was nearby. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that whale didn\u2019t appear to be a danger, but it kept rolling over and showing us its tail fin and just letting us know that it was nearby.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The St. John&#8217;s Narrows (VOCM News) The Whale Release and Strandings Group was involved in freeing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-747502","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\/747502","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=747502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}