A volunteer with the Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI) used an extended pole and a few cautious maneuvering to take away a knife from the snout of a 400-pound sea lion this weekend.
The Santa Barbara rescue group stated in an Instagram put up that the ocean lion was first noticed at Hollywood Seaside in Oxnard earlier than it retreated to the water and swam over to a dock close to the general public boat ramp at Channel Islands Harbor.
Frightened the large animal might cost in the event that they bought too shut, a CIMWI volunteer used a pole affixed with a hook to snag the wire cutter slot on the knife’s deal with. “Our volunteer pulled the hook straight and used slight upward stress to keep away from additional reducing the ocean lion because the blade got here out of its face,” CIMWI stated.
Fortunately, the knife missed all very important constructions, and the wound is anticipated to heal by itself, the group stated.
“The ocean lion jumped off the dock as quickly as we eliminated the knife,” CIMWI stated. “We noticed the animal swimming round for about 10 minutes earlier than he hopped up on a close-by dock finger. We continued to watch him at a distance and he was nonetheless sunning himself once we left.”
