Heartwarming story. A fishing-line entangled dolphin in Hawaii "asks" a diver for help—and gets it. One night in 2013, while leading a group on a manta ray night dive, off Kona, Hawaii, Keller Laros noticed a dolphin's pectoral fin was entangled in fishing line. The dolphin stayed close, swimming slowly. This is from his report: "A bottlenose dolphin squeaked really loudly, I turned around and it was right behind me. Surprise! It slowly swam among the mantas and divers passing very close to everyone. I noticed it had a small fishing hook and line on and wrapped around its left pectoral fin. I said 'come here,' and signaled it with my finger. It swam over and I was able to remove the hook and line, using the shears on my knife to cut the line, and I unwrapped it. Then the dolphin swam away. I guess the dolphin knew that divers could help."

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Laros is a scuba instructor at Jack's Diving Locker. He was also named the July 2014 Sea Hero by our sister magazine, Scuba Diving, for his work with manta rays at the Manta Pacific Research Foundation.