Whale returns woman’s phone dropped in ocean; video goes viral

All Opdahl had to do was take the phone from the whale’s mouth, after the mammal retrieved it from the water.

A beluga whale reportedly returned a phone to a woman who had dropped it in the water at Hammerfest Harbour in Norway on Monday. The video of the incident has now gone viral. According to a DailyMail report, Isa Opdahl, who was out in a boat with her friends, accidentally dropped her phone in the water. The clip shows the whale promptly holding the handset and bringing it back to the surface.

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However, all Opdahl had to do to get her phone back from the ocean was to take it out from the whale’s mouth. The clip has surfaced days after a beluga whale was found with a tight harness that appeared to be Russian and had raised the alarm of Norwegian officials leading to speculations that the animal may have escaped from a Russian military facility.