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Show doesn't stop there. >> we saw this incredibly exuberant display by this humpback whale over the course of the next 45 minutes to an hour. it was awesome. >> fishbach's son galen thinks he knows why the whale was putting on this amazing display. >> mom, i know what she's doing. >> what is she doing? >> she's showing us she's all free. >> yeah. i think she's showing us a thank-you dance. >> i think so, galen. another daring rescue. this time from a sinking boat. croatia, september 19, 2010. strong currents have stranded 56-year-old ivan plevnik in the middle of the savac river. after fire...

Dangerous place to be working. >> conservationist michael fishbach is the codirector of the whale conservancy. he travels to mexico sea of cortez for two months every winter to photograph and observe some of the largest animals in the world, blue, fin, and humpback whales. on february 14th, 2011, he's out on the water with his wife heather watrous, 5-year-old son galen, and friends, george and whitney brazington. they're headed for a beach when he sees something in the distance. >> it looked to me sort of like part of a tree drunk floating in the desert where there are no large tree trunks eve...

Then he returns to the boat for a knife like this one. he wants to try cutting some of the net free. it's a decision that seems to make his son nervous. >> daddy's going to try to help it, galen. [ crying ] >> i'm scared. it's okay, honey. >> galen, it's okay. >> the camera is rolling as he approaches the 40 to 50,000-pound humpback. >> i got within roughly one foot of the eyeball of this humpback just trying to reassure i was there to help. very extraordinary to have that moment. >> fishbach is able to cut some of the net free from the animal's back. >> how's it working, michael? >> when he t...

>> fishbach and the boat's captain haul the excess net aboard, holding tight, and repositioning the boat with bald whenever the whale shifts in the water. >> we were just grabbing and pulling and cutting and in the context of our cutting, things were getting freed and loose. >> they managed to free one of the pectoral fins which can be seen jutting out of the water. no longer completely immobile, the whale begins to swim. >> we're being taken for a ride by a whale. >> whenever the whale surfaces, the group continues to cut. by now there's a heap of netting aboard the boat. >> just make sure no...

>> fishbach's son galen thinks he knows why the whale was putting on the display. >> mom, i know what she's doing. >> what is she doing? >> she's showing us she's all >> she's showing us she's all free. >> i think she's showing us a thank-you dance. >> i think so, galen. another daring rescue. this time from a sinking boat. zagreb, croatia, september 19th, 2010. strong currents have stranded 56-year-old ivan plevnik in the boat in the middle of the flooded sava river. after firefighters spend hours trying to tow the boat and him to shore, reinforcements are called in. a rescuer is lowered do...