{"id":207857,"date":"2025-12-30T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207857\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:23:06","slug":"rowing-team-crossing-atlantic-ocean-stops-to-rescue-sea-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207857\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing team crossing Atlantic Ocean stops to rescue sea turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; A British rowing team competing in an Atlantic Ocean endurance challenge stopped to rescue a large sea turtle they found entangled in a discarded net.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Hampshire-based Call to Earth team &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/John_Hammond\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"John Hammond\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Hammond<\/a>, Stacey Rivers and Emma Wolstenholme &#8212; said they were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9577jy329o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> about 895 miles into<\/a> their more than 3,000-mile Atlantic crossing as part of the World&#8217;s Toughest Row when they spotted the turtle entangled in marine debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>They posted a video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSzSO-EDCVS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to Instagram<\/a> showing how they paused their journey to free the large turtle and send it on its way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re rowing the Atlantic in support of Blue Marine Foundation and The Ocean Cleanup, to protect the very oceans that carry us forward,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;This is more than a race, it&#8217;s a reminder that the ocean needs us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; A British rowing team competing in an Atlantic Ocean endurance challenge stopped to rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,5593,126814,111,139,69,5591,147,5592,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-207857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-john-hammond","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-odd","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-weird","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}