DOUBLE RESCUE: SAVING A TURTLE AND BABY OCTOPUS FROM A PLASTIC PRISON<br />WITH PIX AND VID<br />By Shuk Yee Tsang<br />A turtle’s brush with danger turned into a double ocean rescue when a baby octopus was also saved from plastic waste.<br />Anthony Brown, 45, a UK-born nature photographer and humpback whale swimming guide now based in Australia, shot this in Niue.<br />Anthony explained how he spotted the turtle trying to eat a discarded plastic bottle floating among jellyfish. <br />He quickly removed the bottle to stop the turtle from swallowing it only to discover a tiny octopus crawling out of the container.<br />Anthony said: “It was pretty bad seeing the turtle trying to eat the plastic. <br />“There were so many jellyfish floating along the same current line, I couldn’t believe it chose the container instead. <br />"We’ll always stop to get plastic out of the ocean, and luckily this time we saved two creatures at once.”<br />END
