Tangled Dermochelys coriacear spotted off west Cornwall Coast, UK
A leatherback turtle has been spotted off the Cornish coast. A crew from the Mermaid Pleasure Trips found it caught on a pot-line buoy near Porthcurno. They were heading back from the Minack Theatre at the end of the 5pm cruise on Sunday, when they saw what appeared to be something tangled with one of the deeper pot-buoys. They managed to help untangle it and set the creature free. Turtle tangled at porthcurno Wildlife expert Martin Elliot said: “Chris had also seen it thinking it was caught in a strong tide, but as I continued to watch through binoculars I thought I could see a flipper thrashing to one side of the buoy. I couldn’t help thinking it might be a turtle, but it took me a couple of minutes to convince myself it wasn’t just weed, and even then I realised it could be a sunfish or even cetacean. “I called Adrian and we headed for the buoy and as we got closer it was obvious there was an animal tangled with the pot-rope. For one moment as a head appeared I thought it might even be a shark (I’ve never seen any turtle in the wild let alone off Cornwall!) but the flippers and finally its huge back broke the surface and it was clearly a Leatherback Turtle in difficulties.” One of the passengers on the boat, Natasha Forster from Leicester, managed to film it… Click the link to read more and watch the video…
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