When they get the call,Rachel and Luke brave cold weather and choppy seas in an inflatable vessel to free unlucky humpback whales stuck in fishing lines.
More than 100 pilot whales have become stranded on a beach near Dunsborough on Thursday morning.
Wildlife scientist Vanessa Pirotta dives into the magical world of whale song.
“It’s like a dystopian,post-apocalyptic David Attenborough documentary where you have penguins swimming on one side and a massive trawler on the other.”
The beached fin whale seems to be the latest victim of a pod of marauding orcas that has been eating and harassing dolphins and other marine mammals.
The pale-white slab was locked away for a century. New analysis has redefined the history of the ocean and all the creatures that depend on it – including humans.
The whale has attracted sharks,and swimming and diving in the area is not advised.
A whale that came close to swimmers at Port Beach on Saturday before beaching itself on a Rockingham sandbar two days later,has sadly died.
A gas exploration company seeks permission to blast continuous noise into a seabed from which a rich chain of life explodes in glorious style every day.
The humpbacks,grey,southern rights and a northern right were spotted throwing,lifting,swimming through seaweed,even wrapping it around their own fins.
Reports suggest two men were flung into the water after a whale breached close to the vessel,police say.