On Sunday morning, the tranquility of Sunshine Coast Beach – a city so named ("Sunrise Beach") due to its location on Australia's easternmost coast, making it supposedly the first place where the sun shines daily on Earth (though of course there are dozens of tiny islands east of Australia where the sun shines even earlier) – was disturbed by what locals described as "strange noise". Soon the source of the noise became apparent, causing a lot of activity in the area. We used ChatGPT to detail what happened there.
The strange noise came from a hump whale, which, as some viewers/listeners put it, cried loudly to call for help. The reason: Her newborn became entangled in a shark net—a giant tennis net placed from the ocean floor to near the surface off beaches to prevent sharks and other large sea animals from reaching the shore and disturbing bathers.
Drone photographer Damian Coulter photographed the worried mother and the child completely trapped online, posting the footage on social media.
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The whale's cries did not fall on deaf ears; Rescue forces responded immediately to the distress call, sailed to the trapped calf and worked to free it from the shark net. Photographer Glenn Reeves, who was in the area, captured the boats circling the young whale as their men tried to cut the cables. He said the baby was finally released, and he and his mother swam together into the ocean.
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Local residents expressed relief at the happy ending, many arguing that such incidents should not happen, and that shark nets were an ineffective measure, causing more harm to marine life than preventing shark attacks.
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