Rescue Hook Saves Calm Dock Seal

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The rescue pole is OCN’s most successful tool at the Walvis Bay Harbour. Seals are used to humans around them and they don’t feel threatened by us and allow us to get close enough to cut them free with one quick motion. They usually mind their own business and rest or sunbathe next to the fishing factories. Their proximity to the fishing factories is also the reason why so many of the few seals in this area continue to get entangled – there is simply too much rubbish in the area. Fishing vessels come and go all day long, and many of them bring back fishing lines, packing straps, fishing nets or other fishing related trash. It only takes one loop of lost fishing line or packing strap to kill a seal, and we often see large amounts of this type of rubbish being blown into the ocean.

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40 thoughts on “Rescue Hook Saves Calm Dock Seal”

  8. Different “ miracles” are documented from around the world and there is always someone to explain away anything miraculous, however Antoine, you are a miracle along with your other rescuers, due to the fact you all can spot a tangled seal in a huge herd of seals, you all can jump from a speeding truck and keep on running, run thru a herd of seals, stand on a rock and getting pelted from huge waves and Antoine, you didn’t get washed into the ocean but persevered to net the seal in very turbulent waters. How you accomplished that feat was truly a miracle. And always, always care for each and every rescue with so much compassion and patience, and tenderness. You all didn’t just get there by chance. You got stuck there due to COVID Antoine and that became your calling. Maybe that was the plan for you.

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  38. For several years I have seen so many of your difficult rescue actions to save so many seals from their entanglements, hanging around their necks or other body parts. I am relieved and very pleased to see that some of the rescue actions can be done both at a safe distance as well as without disturbing the seals much, if at all. Such a neat and impressive skill to be able to cut the entanglements so quickly and unobtrusively, leaving the seals in question saved and only mildly puzzled, if reacting at all.

    I am just so glad I get the chance to be around to watch these moments coming true, after having dreamt of stress-free methods of removing entanglements during those years gone by, while watching you run across the beaches or across treacherous rocks, in danger of hurting yourself (and possibly some of the seals in the process), but days like this seem like they offer a relief, knowing that another seal has been saved from their dangerous entanglement just about to kill the seal, if left hanging on the seal. Thank you for your efforts.

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