Seal Left Helpless by Fishing Net

All four rescuers run into the seal colony to investigate a black entanglement which they later found lying loose on the beach, not attached to a seal. Antoine and Denzil immediately find entangled seals and they successfully catch them with the small rescue nets. Denzil s seal has a deep cut around his neck, a situation that has been all too familiar lately. Antoine s seal is actually a recapture, a seal that has been rescued before. The remaining scar has healed beautifully, but there is a good chance we will catch him again one day as it is difficult to spot the difference between an entanglement and a scar from a distance. The third seal of the day is not suffering from a tiny fishing line, he has a massive green anchovy net wrapped around his body. There is simply no possibility that this seal would have survived very long. The net made hunting and even swimming impossible. Naude holds the seal while Tony unwraps and soothes him. As soon as he is free, he runs back to the ocean to start hi