{"id":676906,"date":"2026-07-06T15:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676906\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:38:09","slug":"portsmouth-pub-landlord-assists-injured-swan-rescue-with-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676906\/","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth pub landlord assists injured swan rescue with kayak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pub landlord used his kayak to help save a male swan from a near-fatal injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service (SVFRS) said its specialist rescue team was called to the swan, trapped in fishing wire with &#8220;a very large lure&#8221; between his beak and wing, in Langstone Harbour, Hampshire, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The swan could have easily lost his life and his family of cygnets and mate lost their family member due to the carelessness of people fishing in the area,&#8221; SVFRS said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a night at a wildlife hospital the swan was &#8220;happily released back to his family&#8221; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The initial plan was to deploy the SVFRS rowing boat, but it said that would have taken too long to arrive from the rescuers&#8217; base in Ford, West Sussex, and the swan &#8220;was in trouble and bleeding heavily&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adam Szczypior, landlord at The Royal Oak, then used his kayak to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pub landlord used his kayak to help save a male swan from a near-fatal injury. Sussex Volunteer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-676906","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\/676906","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=676906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}