This is the moment a boat’s captain managed to save a sea turtle that was tangled in a mass of fishing net.
Scubadiver Afelandra Glez Cibrián was sea-life spotting off the shore of La Ventana, north-east Mexico, earlier this month when she saw a loggerhead turtle wrapped in ‘something white’.
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Scubadiver Afelandra Glez Cibrián (pictured) was sea-life spotting off the shore of La Ventana, north-east Mexico , earlier this month [March 15] when she saw a loggerhead turtle wrapped in ‘something white’
Afelandra’s video has been viewed 88,000 times since it was posted on March 17 with users praising the boaters for their ‘amazing work’
The footage shows the moment captain Enrique Lucero drags the turtle from the water, revealing the clump of netting wrapped around its body
Enrique then cuts the thin netting from around its neck with a small knife as it flaps its fins on the boat’s deck
Afelandra, from La Paz, Mexico, said: ‘We went out to sea and we saw whales, dolphins, mobula ray and some turtles but then we saw one in the distance with something white.
Afelandra, from La Paz, Mexico, said: ‘We went out to sea and we saw whales, dolphins, mobula ray and some turtles’
‘After we removed the sack she began to move her fins again and felt the freedom then we released her’
The turtle is finally released back into the sea at the end of the video – speeding off into the ocean