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Ecstatic. >> i was watching where they had been previously and then, all of a sudden, they came up. we weren't expecting that at all. >> and the next thing you know, they're coming right next to me. >> barb decides to focus in on a woman wearing a bikini and lying on a surfboard. >> the reason i was filming her is because she wasn't wearing a wet suit and the water is freezing here. it's like ice water year round. so, i was like, look at her without a wet suit! so, i had my camera on her, and, boom! out of the water come these two humpbacks, lunge feeding. >> barb's perfect positioning and ste...

Specifically, that it was the female whales responsible for her death. what i found really odd at first was the way they were acting around this whale, and what they told us seemed to be two different things. the first day he arrived, i remember one of the senior trainers at seaworld, tilikum was in a pool and she was walking over a gate and she had her wet suit unzipped tied around her waist and making cooing noises and going hey, tilikum. what a cute whale and play talking at him and one of the supervisors said get her out of there, and just screamed at her like get her away from there. like...

See an ounce of movement. nothing. >> but then a breath. the humpback is alive, but unable to move. >> i could see that this whale was horribly, horribly entangled. just like in a straight jacket. 19 years on the water i've never seen anything like this. you have to make a decision. are you going to try to intervene yourself? physically intervening, certainly, carries a risk. >> fishbach and the group can't turn their backs on the animal. they radio the mexican authorities but know it could take hours if not days for someone to arrive, and by then it could be too late. fishbach takes a quick d...

And get in the water. >> hi, mom! >> ah, i was scared out of my wits. >> first of all i put my wetsuit on backwards because i was raised on a farm in virginia. >> hi, dan. >> my first thought and memory of that time was that dolphins are a lot bigger than they looked when you get in the water next to them. >> well, i watched this sea lion otter show and this guy mike morocco comes out during the show with a dress on, as dorky, the ultra ego dorothy, in a dress with a sea lion. the coward sea lion. right? walking along with a little basket and i go, i will never, ever do that. two months later ...

>> they said, i can see whales, like close up. and i had reasons for optimism. all week i've been staring out to sea, watching humpback whales leaping out of the ocean, spouting and frolicking. so are things compared to other parts of the world, our conservation efforts as far as marine mammals, it's going well? whales in particular? >> that's the one thing on the planet that is. they're talking about taking humpbacks off the endangered species list. it's good to hear that they've recovered. but it may make it easy to add to the whaling list again. >> it's mating season in hawaii for the nearl...