10-foot manta ray with fish hooks in its skin rescued after seemingly approaching Australian snorkelers for help.
An Australian underwater photographer has described how he rescued aJake Wilton told NBC News that he knew he was witnessing something extraordinary when an almost 10-foot manta ray swam by him recently, and seemed to be trying to get his attention.
"It's very rare for an animal to turn and come back over to you and present themselves," Wilton, who is an experienced diver, said Friday."So I knew as soon as she started to interact with us, it was something very special." Photographer Jake Wilton says Freckles the manta approached him for help after being injured by fish hooks in Ningaloo, Australia.It was the middle of May, and Wilton had been guiding a group of snorkelers in the Ningaloo Coast reef, off Western Australia.He knew he had to act quickly, Wilton said, literally holding his breath to get to the injured animal, which is known to local divers as Freckles.
"I wasn't really thinking about anything else except trying to get them out," he said from Australia over Skype."I really didn't want to mess it up."
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