They stayed like that for a while, Ginny convinced that the whale had a message to deliver, something she might translate and convey to the world.

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The only reason the nets have remained underwater for so long, said Ginny Broadhurst, director of the Northwest Marine Conservation Initiative, is because the damage they are doing to the environment is invisible from the surface.

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One possible explanation for the sighting was provided by Ginny Murphy, of St Osyth, who claimed the animal spotted was her pet cat, called Teddy Bear.

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"We have been an external-expert culture for a long time, " says Ginny Michel Lopis, co-owner of The Lodge at Woodloch, in Hawley, Pennsylvania.

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His late wife Ginny was the organiser, a role in which she continued - coming up with the ideas for many of his more celebrated achievements.

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