CABO DE HORNOS, Chile, May 12 (UPI) -- The Chilean Navy announced rescue divers were successful in freeing a 50-foot-long humpback whale tangled in fishing gear near Lennox Island.

The Navy said rescue divers were dispatched Wednesday to the Magallanes Region after boaters reported spotting the humpback whale struggling to free itself from a tangle of fishing line.


A video posted to Facebook shows the divers working to free the leviathan from its predicament.

The whale was able to swim away at the end of the successful operation.