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Diver ‘heartbroken’ after failure to revive sea turtle
By Tsai Tsung-hsien
and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A diver on Saturday tried in vain to save a critically endangered sea turtle that became entangled in a fishing net off the southern coast the 49th such case this year.
“I am really heartbroken,” the diving instructor, surnamed Tseng (曾), said yesterday of losing the hawksbill sea turtle, despite administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Tseng was with a trainee at a diving spot off Shanhai Fishing Harbor (山海漁港) in Pingtung County’s Hengchun Township (恆春) when they discovered a discarded 2m-by-40m gillnet.
A diver brings a sea turtle that was trapped in a fishing net to the surface off the coast of Pingtung County on Saturday.