it has a rope around its girth. >> oh, right around its like waist and its fin. >> yeah. it's cutting the fin off right at the top. now, the people who caught this video were divers. they said the first time they saw this whale shuark, they spotted it with the rope around it. when they went back in the second time, they found it again and executed a little rescue mission. >> nice. >> now, eddie has the go pro cam and is catching all the action. then you have dave, the dive guide, swimming in front of the whale shark, trying to get its attention. and then danny swims in with some kind of device to start cutting the rope off. look at that whale shark just sitting there patiently like thanks, man, this is exactly what i need. >> it's almost like he knows they're trying to help. >> when the rope comes off, look at the whale's skin. >> oh! >> man, that looks like it's been there for a long time. >> they say it's a mystery how that rope got on that whale shark, but in the end they were able to help it out and it just swam off. after it was all done, jeta, the wife of the go pro