Sea turtle saved from plastic bag

25 August 2016, 6:36 pm

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A lifeguard, together with a kayaking police officer, rescues a sea turtle that had become tangled in a plastic bag off the coast of Ashdod.

A lifeguard cuts off a platsic bag that had become tangled around a sea turtle's flipper on an Ashdod beach on August 25, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube/Danny 'Goofy' Adler) — A lifeguard cuts off a plastic bag that had become tangled around a sea turtle’s flipper on an Ashdod beach on August 25, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube/Danny ‘Goofy’ Adler)

The police officer had been paddling in his kayak in the waters around the coastal city when he spotted the young turtle with a plastic bag wrapped around his right flipper, lifeguard Danny Adler told The Times of Israel.

The officer, who was identified only by his first name Eran, brought the sea turtle ashore, where Adler cut the creature free.

Once loose, the young turtle began flapping its flippers in what this reporter interpreted to be pure, unadulterated joy as he was brought back to the Mediterranean Sea.

— Judah Ari Gross