{"id":414724,"date":"2026-02-08T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414724\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:31:12","slug":"seal-gets-caught-up-in-record-breaking-net-on-falmouth-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/414724\/","title":{"rendered":"Seal gets caught up in &#8216;record breaking&#8217; net on Falmouth beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A seal was rescued on a Cornish beach after it got tangled up in a &#8220;record breaking&#8221; fishing net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) said it received reports on Thursday that a young grey seal was &#8220;fighting for its life&#8221; on Falmouth&#8217;s Gyllyngvase Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the animal had become wrapped in red netting which measured 30.7m (100ft) and weighed 23.5kg (52lbs) &#8211; the largest single item of pollution it had ever released a live seal from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BDMLR said the seal was &#8220;incredibly lucky&#8221; as members of its response team, the public and two Cornish Seal Sanctuary staff who lived nearby helped release it back to the sea with no serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seal was rescued on a Cornish beach after it got tangled up in a &#8220;record breaking&#8221; fishing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-414724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}