Whale Sharks

Category: Community work | Date: Sep 08 2008 | By: whalesharks

Diving The Crab are going great guns with the turtle rescue. Here are some more pictures of  2 big turtles released today. Danny tells me these 2 were really big - one was aboug 2m long and 150kg, the other a bit smaller (!!) at 1m long.

They are brought in by the fishermen in their dug out canoes. You can see how horribly tangled up they are in the deadly nets. They are carefully lifted out of the canoe and cut free.

Once free of the nets, the turtles are able to swim off to freedom back to the open ocean.

This is Danny looking on with relief and I imagine great pride

Who ever said turtles had it easy? Imagine getting tangled up in a net as you are swimming along and eventually drowning because you couldn’t breathe. And I thought I had had a bad day today!!

Please help us save these turtles by donating. This turtle release programme is only a stop-gap, band aid measure. We HAVE to get the fishermen alternative ways of fishing and for this we need funding. Mending the nets is not a viable, long-term solution. We need to educate them and present them with alternatives that work. You can help us by donating.

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