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Hermann Meuter, who runs a whale research facility near Hartley Bay, said another researcher was watching whales hunting seals Wednesday and noticed a female orca was stranded. Meuter said the tide was receding when rescuers reached the whale, and it was too dangerous to try to get her back into the water. Instead, they covered her with blankets and kept her cool and wet while waiting for higher water. " She was crying a little bit, calling for her family, but she endured it," he said in an interview Thursday via satellite phone. Meuter was initially alone as he poured water from a bucket over the whale, but he couldn't keep up when the sun came out and some of the dozens of people who had gathered to watch pitched in. " It was very stressful for the whale. Having her whole body weight lying on the rocks, her lungs were most likely squeezed a little bit." Meuter said it didn't take the whale long to realize they were helping, and she calmed down after the first hour. Cam Hill, a band councillor from the Hartley Bay First Nation, said he was teaching a class when word came about the stranded whale, and his group decided to check out the " oncein- a- lifetime experience." " The thing that really struck home with me was just how patient she was in waiting for that water to come up," said Hill, who watched the operation from the rocks above. The whale waited until she was fully floating and then gently eased herself into a position where she could slip off the rocks and into the ocean, he said. " Once she moved herself off into the ocean there was a triumphant yahoo from everybody involved. You could tell she was very happy to be gone - she just took off." Hill said his students, ranging from 10 to 15 years old, were overjoyed at the outcome. " It was mind- blowing." Meuter has seen the whale and her transient pod before. The orca is known as T69E and is about 11 years old, he said. She made it back to her waiting pod relatively unscathed. " She had minor scratches on her tail from barnacles. There was a little bit of blood, but there were no major injuries." It was nice to be able to get her back to her pod, Meuter said. " As stressful as it was for the whale, the outcome, of course, was extremely exciting for us." The whale was lucky someone spotted her hung up in such a remote location and help could arrive so quickly, he noted. " If she would have been there for nine hours without water being poured onto her body, there would have been a lot of stress on her." - The Canadian Press ' Patient' killer whale rescued by high tide SUPPLIED IMAGE The orca was initially distressed by the presence of onlookers but calmed down when she realized they were helping her with water, a whale researcher said. WASHINGTON - The cause of human rights in China has brought a Canadian beauty queen before the U. S. Congress. Actor Anastasia Lin, who made human rights part of her winning bid in May to become Canada's contestant to the global Miss World beauty pageant, testified Thursday about religious persecution in China. The 25- year- old Lin, who was born in China, plays an imprisoned practitioner of the outlawed Falun Gong sect in an upcoming Canadian movie, The Bleeding Edge . " Through my encounters with persecution victims and their family members, I have found that these practitioners of Falun Gong, who have been marginalized, defamed and vilified in China for the past 16 years, are noble people," she told the Congressional Executive Commission on China. She said practitioners are imprisoned and tortured for their beliefs. " I wanted to speak for those in China ( who) are beaten, burned and electrocuted for holding to their beliefs; people in prison who eat rotten food with blistered fingers because they dare have convictions." Falun Gong was outlawed as a threat to social stability in China in 1999. Lin moved to Canada when she was 13 and said her father was proud of her when she was crowned Miss World Canada, " but within a couple days, my father's tone changed." " He told me nervously that I must stop my advocacy for human rights in China, or else he would have no choice but to sever contact with me," Lin told the commission. She said she believes her father was visited by Chinese security agents, who forced him to apply pressure on her. " I don't get to talk to him anymore." These threats are how Canadian and American citizens with family in China feel the weight of the regime's repression - even on the other side of the world, she said. " I hope that you can help Chinese people gain a voice, to support them in their wish to believe what they want to believe and talk to whoever they want to talk to about any topic they wish. " I miss my dad." The University of Toronto graduate said she still hopes to be able to compete in the 2015 Miss World pageant, which will be held Dec. 19 in Sanya, China. " Recent events leave me uncertain, I'm a little worried about what will happen next if I continue to speak out," she said. " Human rights and religious freedom in China don't just affect the people that live there, they affect every person of Chinese ethnicity around the world that still have loved ones there." Last week, Hollywood star Richard Gere, a longtime activist for freedom in Tibet, testified to another congressional panel on repression by Chinese authorities of the Buddhist followers of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. On a visit to China last November, Prime Minister Stephen Harper raised the issue of religious freedom in a meeting with President Xi Jinping. - The Canadian Press Actor defies Chinese pressure Continues to call for religious freedom '... 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