Whale caught in fishing nets freed off Poland’s Baltic coast

Sea rescuers approach a whale that got caught in fishing nets off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland (Maritime Search and Rescue Service via AP)

Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife experts successfully freed a whale that got caught in fishing nets near a popular Baltic Sea resort in Poland.

It took about an hour for the rescuers to cut and remove the nets and allow the whale to swim into the open sea, close to the popular summer resort and beach in Miedzyzdroje, where the stranded animal was spotted on Wednesday morning.