Rescuers are desperately trying to find a seal that got its mouth stuck on a discarded Red Bull can. Onlookers alerted lifeboat teams after the marine mammal was spotted with the empty drink container dumped by a litter bug.
Rescuers are desperately trying to find a seal that got its mouth stuck on a discarded Red Bull can
Onlookers alerted lifeboat teams after the marine mammal was spotted with the empty drink container dumped by a litter bug
But their efforts were in vain and they were unable to fend off the River Lagan in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Search and rescue teams and harbour police launched a search for the seal after it was seen to be in distress and swam off
Andrew Wolsey was among locals to spot the seal and said ‘you’re a scumbag’ if you litter
A Lagan Search and Rescue spokesperson said: ‘We went out to try and help a slightly different part of the community than we normally deal with’
A spokesperson for Debbie Doolittle’s Wild Life, also involved in the rescue, said: ‘I think this guy should be named either Rocket or Houdini. It reappeared at the slipway.
Pictures of a seal wearing plastic swimming goggles it picked up at sea sparked warnings from nature lovers about the dangers of pollution
In 2019, a seal nicknamed Mrs Vicar was pictured with a plastic frisbee stuck around its neck amongst the colony on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk
Two years ago, a seal was also found on Horsey Beach half-strangled by a sea net which had cut into its neck