U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender crew rescues wildlife

HONOLULU – A distressed sea turtle struggles to set itself free from a fishing net as the crewmembers aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Walnut pull close to perform a wildlife disentanglement, June 16, 2010.
The multi-mission capable crew of the Walnut was en route to the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response when they rescued the entangled sea turtle.
U.S. Coast Guard photo.

For more photos from the rescue, please click here and here.

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