Humpback whale calf rescued from net off Australian beach

“It was a very, very young calf heavily engaged in the net, it was almost enveloped in the net so quite distressing for the calf and quite distressing for the mother,” Mr. Long told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

A whale calf has been freed after becoming tangled in a shark net off the Australian east coast.

Experts from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Sea World Gold Coast worked for almost two hours on Tuesday morning untangling the humpback calf from a net about 500 meters (yards) off Greenmount Beach at Gold Coast city.