Rope Peeled Out of Seal's Infected Wound

Okay, we're at Cape Cross, on the south beach. The seals are very active, very close to the beach as well. It is going to be a bit of a difficult one. I think I can see us getting wet. Yes! He doesn't sit very well. The tag is on the top. Oh! Man! The tag is on the top right shoulder. On top of the right shoulder, eh? Water! Water! Top right, yeah. Should I take his head? Hang on, hang on. Before anyone gets close. Okay. You have him? Yeah. I'm going to pull the leftover rope out of his wound. All right, you guys good? Yeah. Oh! He was very lucky we intervened. That was a decapitation in the making. Thin, very old, cotton string... huh, plastic. Very infected. It smells horrible, but, at least, we got him free.

Channel: Ocean Conservation Namibia

Views: 100,029

Keywords: Ocean Conservation Namibia, Plastic Pollution, Namibia, Conservation, Animal Rescue, Pelican Point, Leatherman, Walvis Bay, Ocean Pollution, Namib_Naude, Seal Rescue, Sea Lion, Pollution, GoPro, Cape Cross, Naude Dreyer, Fishing line, Seal Baby, seal pup, Skeleton Coast, Seal, 100sealsfortime, NGO Namibia, Injured Seal, Ghostnet, Sea lion rescue, baby seal rescue, injured sea lion, seals namibia, pinnipeds, rescue net, stemthetide, entanglement, seaspiracy, swakopmund, gill net

Id: dnZ69t7FpmE

Length: 2min 53sec (173 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 02 2022