An employee of the Main Department of EMERCOM of Russia across the Sakhalin region Alexander Igelski said details dramatic rescue of a killer whale named Willy, trapped in ice off the coast of the Russian island.
According to him, initially planned to attract to the rescue of the whale the helicopter or the ship, but for a number of reasons from using these kinds of rescue vehicles, it was decided to refuse. “Only stayed with the boat. With the help of poles, brute force and some kind of a mother,” wrote Igelski on his page in Facebook.
“The afternoon was a time when Willie is tired,” says the rescuer. — He is somewhere within minutes the three cried (it cried, howled, hooted, squeaked, and it was CRYING), and it was to me as kind of creepy, like he was telling us that all guys, thanks, but I’m tired. Forever tired.”
“And then he turned on his side, breathing hole fell into the water. Ceased to move. Only a spasm in the tail. And somehow everyone fell silent. One of our even said: “thirty-sixth”. So slang on the fire call of the dead”, — quotes the details Uvelskiy.
“Here guys, something clicked though. Rescuers that were in wetsuits, jumped in the water. Gimse (employees of the state Inspectorate for small vessels. — Approx. ed.) and a firefighter continued to work with ice. With triple, maybe even quadruple the power, though, and before that more hours worked for wear. Fought (a word I have, is that fought. Fought, fought for the lives of orcas). With gravity and complex bottom topography fought. First they moved it, so he could breathe. Apparently, the forces were still Willie, and felt a breathing on the surface, he changed his mind to die, and sighed. Then it advanced the plot a little deeper and turned to normal position. And he was alive. I started to breathe and move”.
However, the elements and other circumstances were in no hurry to help people: “And then a wave rose, which again scored the ice hole in the ice, which made using the car on the shore, which pulled the rope tied to him with icicles. And then as if all. Our continued space with no ice around animals, but nothing more could do. I went to Glaucus, to throw the footage and more in starodubskoye did not return. But our stayed there.”
“Help came from not waiting — the same wave that catches up the ice in a hole, make way for the three whales that were farther from shore than Willie. Among them, the cub was,” writes Uvelskiy.
“But Willie remained in captivity. After deliberation, the rescuers decided that staying the night. “Day or something, everything was in vain? And throw zhivotinku? Nope. We will save further,” replied one of them in a telephone conversation tonight to my question about why he decided to stay,” he says.
“Then came the men from the diving club. Helped a great deal. Got there and the guys from “Boomerang”, Peter van der wolf of “Sakhalin energy”, the veterinarian Catherine of Starodub, other Sakhalin. Also a great help.
The whale was covered with canvas, was doing life-affirming shot of adrenaline, smeared ointment on the wound and supported. Dima Mikhailov, a senior group from the group name Polyakova, lots and lots of time spent in the water, two of the most vivid impressions. This is how much help the volunteers, named after and everything arrived countrymen, and how everyone rejoiced when Willie was saved,” writes the squad.
According to him, the Dolphinarium he would not go: “too a killer whale and other members of the Dolphin family like us. Voice, communication, response”.
Recall that the unique operation to rescue the four orcas who were caught in the ice, was successfully completed yesterday.
