[GRAPHIC WARNING] Painful Seal Rescue

All right, so we are at Mowe Bay. Denzil and I have spotted a juvenile, maybe a yearling, with a very bad entanglement, maybe a gillnet. We're going to try to catch him. It seems to be a very severe cut. I go to the left Oh, very bad. Scan the rest. The net is perfectly on the shoulders now. Can you grab the zip? Oh! Damn! Oh, that's not good! It's so, so bad! Do you want scissors? Do you guys need help? Maybe, yeah. It's growing over in little patches. So what I'm thinking is to actually take it out of the zip part and try to keep his face in the net. I'm going to hold the face, Naude can work the wound, you keep the body immobilised, yes? Do you want to put your other glove on? I've left it behind. It's okay I can feel better when he bites me. I'm joking. I'm good, I'm good. He's actually very calm even though he's in a lot of pain. Okay, there's no more there. But there is a strand here. Oh, here is your flipper! We can turn all around if you guys want. Okay, just hang on. He had it for months, huh? Is it hard to pull? No, no, this thing is not moving. Naude pulled it now, but it's not moving. Was it that one? Okay, that one's out. There must be another one then. It must be connected to the big one, no? What a freaking crap, man! Seriously! It's a different one that's coming. This poor guy. I'm going to cut this knot, hoping that somewhere else we can remove it. Oh, wow, that's a new one. That was Mommy! Yes, you found him! We're going to have to cut one knot and pull from the other. Are you happy without? I'm going to have to, man. You have him, Wally? Yeah. If you want to turn, you let me know because he came a little backwards. I know it's painful, but you're going to die if we don't do it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah! Yes, most of the strands are here. Okay, there are a few strands. Oh, nice! I think it's all out. Okay, let's check again. Is it not one coming up there? Here? Do you want to roll him just to check? Yeah, we can. Denzil, check. That looks pretty clean, eh? And that side was good. You guys ready? You first, go. Well, that was one of the most surgical rescues we've ever done. Not that we're surgeons. So overgrown in so many places. That's unfortunately the reality of a place like this. There are so many seals out there, but we usually have only access to two colonies, and we get so many. We've had five today, and they've all been extremely severe   because there are just so many animals we just don't get access to. On average, each commercial gillnetter loses over 3 100 square meters of net every year.