{"id":17311,"date":"2020-08-03T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:30:44","slug":"uci-marine-scientist-assists-with-humpback-whale-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2020\/08\/03\/uci-marine-scientist-assists-with-humpback-whale-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI Marine Scientist Assists with Humpback Whale Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoWrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Saving a Humpback Whale: A Disentanglement Tale\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSoPyYrXJbc?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>UCI Marine Scientist Jim Nickels responded to an emergency call aboard Monmouth University\u2019s research vessel<em> Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe<\/em> on July 30 to help free a humpback whale entangled in a commercial trawl net off Long Island.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17314\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17314 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo shows humpback whale in distress\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-280x373.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-320x427.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4482-rotated.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jim Nickels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Army Corps of Engineers, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, U.S. Coast Guard, Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and Turtles Fly Too all collaborated to free the animal. The effort began on July 27, when the Coast Guard received a report of a distressed whale in the Ambrose Channel of New York. Nickels was joined aboard the <em>Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe<\/em> on Thursday by Monmouth University graduate Peter Plantamura of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center\u2019s (NEFSC) Sandy Hook lab.<\/p>\n<p>The humpback was essentially anchored in place by what NOAA estimated to be 4,000 pounds of netting, ropes and steel cables wrapped around its tail. Nickels said by the time he arrived, the whale appeared in mortal danger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a massive commercial net and the whale was in a nasty tangle,\u201d Nickels said. \u201cIt was to the point where it was having trouble breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe<\/em>\u2019s net reel was used to lift up the gear enough to relieve the pressure on the whale and allow it to move and breathe easier. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Drift Collection Vessel <em>HAYWARD<\/em>\u2019s crain then pulled the gear out of the water and the CCS team cut through it until the whale could swim free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/feature-story\/humpback-whale-disentangled-new-york-all-thanks-team-effort\">A press release<\/a> recounting the full four-day rescue was issued by NOAA on behalf of all of the rescue partners. The whale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CRESLI.Inc\/photos\/a.406263013422\/10157913282933423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has since been spotted<\/a> swimming safely off the coast of Long Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17329 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of team working to rescue the humpback whale\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/07\/IMG_4481.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"headline-basic headline-basic__article\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/2020\/09\/whale-freed-from-4000-pounds-of-fishing-gear-by-team-including-nj-university.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whale freed from 4,000 pounds of fishing gear by team including N.J. university<\/a>, NJ.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<p id=\"link-16165356\" class=\"css-rsa88z e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/01\/nyregion\/whale-rescue-ny-harbor.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What It Took to Free a Whale Entangled in 4,000 Pounds of Fishing Gear<\/a>, New York Times<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/distressed-entangled-humpback-whale-off-new-york-set-free\">Distressed, entangled humpback whale off New York set free<\/a>, WPIX 11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalfisherman.com\/northeast\/entangled-humpback-whale-rescued-from-new-york-channel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entangled humpback whale rescued from New York channel<\/a>, National Fisherman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCI Marine Scientist Jim Nickels responded to an emergency call aboard Monmouth University\u2019s research vessel Heidi Lynn Sculthorpe on July 30 to help free a humpback whale entangled in a commercial trawl net off Long Island. Officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Army Corps of Engineers, New York State Department of Environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 19:50:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25911,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions\/25911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}