Sunday, 13 May 2018
Seal avoids 'slow and painful death' by air vent filter
3 May 2018
A young seal is having to be taught to swim upright, after it became used to swimming on its back because of a plastic ring stuck around its neck.
It was spotted off the Norfolk coast with a deep wound caused by part of an air vent filter cutting into his flesh. After treatment, staff at Sea Life Hunstanton named him Relashio, after a Harry Potter spell.
It is now being taught to mimic other seals and swim in an upright position so it can be released. The juvenile grey seal was spotted struggling at Burnham Overy Staithe beach on the north Norfolk coast with a "waste air vent... dangerously trapped around his neck" which would have led to "a slow and painful death" had he not been treated.
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