During one of our seal patrol mornings, Antoine and Naude from Ocean Conservation Namibia experienced a new level of urgency. While attempting to rescue a seal with a single use plastic shopping back around its neck, they already expected to find a second seal with entanglement. The first one got to the water too quick, but Tony managed to catch a different one (Seal 1) with our custom build seal catching net. Naude spotted a different seal with fishing line around his neck (Seal 2) and he caught him by hand.

While Naude removed fishing line from Seal 2, Tony ran off to another one: Seal 3. Naude had lost his scissors, he used a knife to disentangle Seal 2, who was the first one to be rescued. Some other seals opted for safety in the water and almost ran over Naude.
Seal 1 was still immobilised in the net, he had been stuck in the net for 2 minutes by now.

Naude joined Tony to assist with Seal 3, a young seal who had a piece of fishing line around his neck. He was quickly rescued and Naude and Tony started collecting the pieces of rubbish, when Tony ran off to catch another one: Seal 4. This seal put up a good fight when Naude took a piece of plastic bag off his chest. He was ready to bite and fight for his life, but Tony and Naude are experienced enough to handle him.

On the way back to Seal 1, Antoine and Naude pick up all pieces of entanglement to be collected for further research and to keep the beaches clean. Seals can't move once they are caught in the net, but for a moment both activists are worried that the seal had made it into the water. Luckily they were wrong, and they could finally attend to Seal 1's entanglement: a thin piece of cotton line.

We are shocked about the amount of seal rescues we are doing at the moment.
As of 25 June, we have rescued 251 seals in 2020. On the day of this video, we caught 13 seals in one day alone. 🦭

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