Watch Fla. Police Diver Save Snapping Turtle 'in Distress' in Canal

    Nov. 30, 2021
    While the Lee County Sheriff's Office was conducting a training exercise in the Cape Coral canals, raw video captured the agency's dive team saving a turtle tangled in a fishing line.

    Source Miami Herald

    Lee County, FL, Sheriff's Office
    The dive team for the Lee County, FL, Sheriff's Office rescued a snapping turtle tangled in fishing line and 'in distress,' while the members were conducting a training exercise last week.
    The dive team for the Lee County, FL, Sheriff's Office rescued a snapping turtle tangled in fishing line and "in distress," while the members were conducting a training exercise last week.

    A snapping turtle’s strong jaws couldn’t help it make its way out of a mess in Florida.

    According to a Facebook post from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, a dive team training in a Cape Coral canal encountered the turtle that was caught up in a fishing line.

    The turtle was “in distress,” said the post, not only just tangled up in the line but with a hook stuck in its mouth.

    In video on the post entitled “Turtle-y great,” you can see the dive team member work to free the reptile.

    The turtle received care at an area animal hospital, then will be transferred to the Clinic for Rehabilitation of Wildlife in Sanibel for “special treatment,” according to deputies.

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