Live Feed of Gray Whale Rescue Near San Onofre

A gray whale is entangled near San Onofre according to KABC-TV News. Click here to watch as the rescue attempt unfolds.

A similiar situation happened last week in Dana Point with a gray whale dubbed ''

An older, 40-foot gray whale was found entangled in a net near Laguna Beach today, and a rescue team followed the animal south out to sea in hopes of freeing it.

A team from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center was assembled at 1:15 p.m.
when the call came in that a whale had gotten stuck in a net, said Melissa
Sciacca, the center's director of development.

The team was able to attach three buoys to the whale to help track the mammal, which was towing about 50 to 100 feet of line stuck on its left pectoral fin, Sciacca said just after 6 p.m. Another line was stuck in the whale's mouth, she said.

The whale appeared to be a healthy adult and the entanglement appeared
to be fairly recent, Sciacca said. 

The crew was being "extra cautious as the location of the entanglement poses the highest risk to the rescue team," she said.

The rescuers hoped to get close enough to cut the line loose. As of 6 p.m., the whale was about 10 miles offshore of San Onofre.

It was the third such rescue the center has been involved in over the
past month, Sciacca said.

— City News Service contributed to this report.