. >> conservationist michael fishbach is the codirector of the whale conservancy.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 it wasny 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 none. no large tree trunks ever floating in the water. and as we approached slowly at that poirjts i could see floats on the water that were part of a net. >> the group discovered that tangled in that net is a young humpback whale. >> i was pretty convinced that it was dead because we did not see an ounce of movement. nothing. >> but then a breath. the humpback is alive, but unable to move. >> i could see that this whale was horribly, horribly entangled. just like in a straight jacket. 19 years on the water i've never seen anything like this. you ha