Humpback Whale Rescue Story on Radio Lab

Radio Lab is a public radio program that features stories on a wide variety of subjects. This episode, "Animal Minds," is about what animals are actually thinking.

About four minutes into the broadcast, the first story is about some scuba divers rescuing a female humpback whale that's entangled in crab pot lines about 18 miles off the coast of Northern California. The whale's reaction after the rescue is amazing and subject to much debate in the broadcast.

Radio Lab "Animal Minds"

That's an awesome show, Radio Lab is one of my favorite podcasts for long drives.

I really liked the segment about the whale (and the discussion after, about what it could mean, is really good). Can you imagine working on freeing a whale? If any of the divers involved are here on Scubaboard, please stop and say hi! That would be awesome.

Other good episodes with a link to the underwater world:

Sleep -- Have you wondered how dolphins sleep? Not really? Well, they need to breathe -- and they have to think about breathing, they can't just go to sleep and continue breathing, like land-based mammals. Interesting, no?

Yellow Fluff -- One of the stories is about an expedition that checked the bottom of the ocean in the Arctic, and what they found.