An orca escape artist managed to struggle free unaided after being entangled in a crab pot for several hours earlier this week off the U.S. northwest coast.

Reports that the transient orca, later identified as T65A5, appeared to be entangled in a crab pot near Saratoga Passage, Washington, came in on Wednesday morning, NOAA Fisheries West Coast said in a post on Facebook.

A commercial tugboat in the area offered to monitor the whale at a safe distance while agencies responded, the post said.

The same orca got trapped overnight in a lagoon in Port Angeles, WA, in May last year after entering through a canal which it also used to escape.