Spanish divers rescue trapped whale shark
STORY: Spanish divers helped free this whale shark
after it got caught in tuna fishing nets
near the Strait of Gibraltar
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the world
and are endangered
according to the World Wildlife Fund
(Juan Carlos Rivas, President, CECAM)
“This is the first time, and I have been diving for many years, that I have seen a whale shark in Ceuta.”
It took divers about four hours to release the shark