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Today, we’re sharing two sea turtle rescues that still get to us, both pulled off by cleanup crews this past year.

Three hawksbills, five miles offshore

The call came in at midday: massive trash patch, 5 miles offshore.

When the crew arrived, the ocean surface was blanketed with plastic stretching nearly 3 miles. But the real emergency was what they discovered trapped within…

Three little hawksbill sea turtles, fighting for their lives.

One stuck in a plastic bucket. Another covered in barnacles, disoriented. The third nearly invisible against the trash, tangled in rope and seaweed.

But this story has a happy ending…

See how the team managed to save these endangered creatures:

WATCH THE FULL SEA TURTLE RESCUE >>

A nest of hatchlings beneath beach trash

A regular morning cleanup on Medewi Beach turned upside down when the crew spotted something moving beneath piles of debris.

Baby leatherback turtles. A whole nest. Struggling to break free.

The cleanup became a rescue and a race against time. The team carefully cleared the trash, then guided the hatchlings safely to the ocean.

SEE THE HATCHLING RESCUE >>

Both rescues happened because these crews were on the water, doing the work.

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