During the period 2004-2008 there were at least four documented cases of entanglements for which the intervention of disentanglement teams averted a likely death of a right whale.
Common human-caused injuries to aquatic birds include habitat destruction, plastic pollution, fishing hook lacerations, and fishing line entanglements.
From early on, the company made a specialty of playful topsy-turvy entanglements that defied anatomical logic and which sometimes gave rise to bizarre imagery.