A young Hahei man rescued an exhausted and bloody orca yesterday after it was entangled in a cray pot.The orca was discovered tangled in rope and cray pots several hundred metres off the Coromandel Coast yesterday afternoon."It had cuts all over its head from the rope… and down the tail there were a few rope burns and I could see blood from where the rope was," said Rhys Cochrane, who went to the whale's rescue.Cochrane's family diving business had received a call from the Department of Conservation telling them that the mammal was in distress and needed to be let free.It didn't take long for the 20-year-old and his father to find the whale, which was exhausted after dragging the cray pot up from the ocean's surface. A small pod of orca were nearby."I jumped in the water to see how it was tangled and noticed it was tangled around the tail, which means it could be cut free," Cochrane said. It took only minutes to free it.
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What does the term "cray pot" refer to. Is this a slang term for either crab or lobster trap?
On this side of the globe, crayfish are fresh water critters.
