On Tuesday near Grays Harbor on the outer coast of Washington, Cascadia Research, a member of the NOAA West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network, helped free a humpback whale who was entangled in a crab pot. Read the story in The Olympian here.

For details and photos, read Cascadia’s report here. Kudos to Cascadia for performing this extremely dangerous work and quite likely saving the life of this young whale!