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A Girl Owes Her Life To A Whale
A drowning diver has told how she was saved by a whale that pushed her back to the surface when she suffered crippling cramps Yang Yun, from Harbin, north east China, thought she was going to die when her legs were paralyzed by arctic temperatures during a free diving contest without any breathing equipment.
Competitors had to sink to the bottom of an aquarium’s 20 foot arctic pool and stay there for as long as possible amid the beluga whales at Polar Land in Harbin, north east China.
But when Yun, 26, tried to head to the surface she found her legs were crippled by cramps.
She explains, “I began to choke and sank even lower and I thought that was it for me – I was dead. Until I felt this incredible force under me driving me to the surface,” she explained.
Mila, the Beluga whale, had spotted her difficulties and using her sensitive dolphin-like nose guided Yun safely to the surface.
An organiser recalls, “Mila noticed the problem before we did. We suddenly saw the girl being pushed to the top of the pool with her leg in Mila’s mouth. She’s a sensitive animal who works closely with humans and I think this girl owes her life.”
(From Telegraph.co.uk)
Competitors had to sink to the bottom of an aquarium’s 20 foot arctic pool and stay there for as long as possible amid the beluga whales at Polar Land in Harbin, north east China.
But when Yun, 26, tried to head to the surface she found her legs were crippled by cramps.
She explains, “I began to choke and sank even lower and I thought that was it for me – I was dead. Until I felt this incredible force under me driving me to the surface,” she explained.
Mila, the Beluga whale, had spotted her difficulties and using her sensitive dolphin-like nose guided Yun safely to the surface.
An organiser recalls, “Mila noticed the problem before we did. We suddenly saw the girl being pushed to the top of the pool with her leg in Mila’s mouth. She’s a sensitive animal who works closely with humans and I think this girl owes her life.”
(From Telegraph.co.uk)
