A marine team handled a six-hour rescue operation to free a humpback whale from 450 feet of tangled rope and fishing gear in Canada’s Nanoose Bay.

Fader the humpback whale ran into 425 feet of fishing gear. After becoming hopelessly entangled in it, rescue crews spent six hours cutting it free.

Fader the humpback has been coming back to British Columbia’s waters for the last two decades, but this time the whale was spotted with something extra — more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear.

Humpback Whale Breaching and Crashing into the Ocean @oscartrisleyphotography ...

Fader the humpback has been coming back to British Columbia’s waters for the last two decades, but this time the whale was spotted with something extra – more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear.

The whale was first spotted Sunday in the Strait of Georgia entangled in more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear.

A humpback whale in Canada’s Nanoose Bay had 450 feet of tangled rope and fishing gear removed in a recent six-hour rescue operation.Fisheries and Oceans Canada released footage showing a humpback ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says more than 450 feet (137 metres) of rope and other fishing gear was removed from an entangled humpback whale in the waters off Vancouver Island, B.C.

A humpback whale has been freed from more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear in a rescue operation in B.C. waters by a crew with the Fisheries Department. Cheyenne Brewster, with Vancouver ...

The critter for this week is the Humpback Whale Louse. Over the weekend, a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) became stranded on a sandbar at a North Dunedin beach.