Three scallop divers rescued a young deer which fell into a harbour - pulling it out by its antlers.<br /><br />The buck got into trouble at Brixham in Devon at around 9:30am on May 16.<br /><br />Frazer Pugh, 32, and crewmates William Jennings, 34, and Darrin Fowler, 55, has just arrived to start work when a harbour worker told them about the deer.<br /><br />So they jumped into their boat and went out to rescue the animal.<br /><br />Frazer, from Torbay, said: "We were going to work on Tuesday, we weren't diving that day so we started quite late at around half nine.<br /><br />"When we got there the quayside harbour security guy was flustered and told us that a deer had ran past, jumped on a boat and then into the harbour.<br /><br />"He was swimming round the harbour and couldn't get out. He wasn't going to last very long as he would exhaust himself and die.<br /><br />"We just jumped on the boast and went to rescue him."<br /><br />The three men got to the deer and pulled the young buck out by his antlers.<br /><br />They sat with him in the boat for about an hour whilst harbour staff called the police and RSPCA.<br /><br />Eventually, it was decided that they would take the deer around the cove and release him into nearby forestry.<br /><br />Frazer, said: "He was only a baby buck so we were able to pull him out by his antlers.<br /><br />"We sat with him for a while whilst we were finding out out what to do with him.<br /><br />"Eventually we figured the best thing for us to do was to put him back into the forestry.<br /><br />"We didn't want to put him on the road as the only for him to run to would be town and we were worried he'd be hit by a car.<br /><br />"We took him by sea around into a cove that backs onto forestry.<br /><br />"He ran off into the forest and kind of looked back as if to say thanks - then he ran off.<br /><br />"It was relatively easy for us to rescue him. We work everyday in the water and pull things out of the water all the time. <br /><br />"We come across a lot of marine life on a daily basis - but this was the first time we've encountered a deer in the water."<br /><br />The crew then went back to work for the The Hand Picked Scallop Company Ltd., for the rest of the day.
