NOKOMIS \u2014 A sea turtle in distress was in the right place at the right time to get some help Sunday.<\/p>\n
The marine reptile was struggling in the Gulf, entwined in rope from a crab trap that had looped tightly around its neck.<\/p>\n
But the creature happened to be in the path of a U.S. Coast Guard crew that was on its way back to port from duty at the Englewood Beach Waterfest powerboat races.<\/p>\n
The crew, a mix of reserve and active-duty Coast Guard members, was about a mile offshore Sarasota County, between the Venice Inlet and Big Sarasota Pass, and headed back to the their base, the Cortez station near Bradenton.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when they spotted the turtle, bobbing with the black rope and pink float around its head.<\/p>\n
The crew brought the sea turtle alongside the boat and safely untangled the line, freeing the sea turtle to swim away under its own fin power.<\/p>\n
The turtle was estimated to be between 25 to 40 years old, its shell about 3 feet long.<\/p>\n
\n BY U.S. COAST GUARD STATION CORTEZ
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The turtle swam off under its own power, and the crew continued their transit home, the post stated.<\/p>\n
From the lens of Meta glasses, the rescue was captured on video.<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard station thanked the crew for stopping, stating it\u2019s \u201cmoments like this that show the true strength of our total workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NOKOMIS \u2014 A sea turtle in distress was in the right place at the right time to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[319956,49,48,319954,66,16965,319953,319955,323],"class_list":["post-932708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-big-sarasota-pass","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-englewood","tag-science","tag-sea-turtle","tag-us-coast-guard","tag-venice-inlet","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}