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Divers save sea turtle caught in fishing net

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    Distressed animal saved in Hawaii

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Five members from the -- -- is diving club or hitting out to one of their favorite spots Saturday.

When something floating in the ocean caught their mark noticed often distance would look like that Iraq.

They were concerned someone was in trouble so they move did this thing where -- -- used his platform it was made out.

-- -- and -- to have some PVC.

Part there was no sign of humans but there was life and as we are close to -- I notice of -- had come up and it looked like he'd been there for a while a large Green sea turtle gasping for air was tangled in 100 feet a fishing net.

Three divers quickly jumped at it and went to work cutting away at the net it was attached to the -- -- -- -- -- itself the animal was an obvious distress you could tell by the way he was just.

Taken trying to take that had that -- -- -- that survive and you knew you knew there was no time left -- it come up for air.

The group -- sea turtles are protected under the Endangered Species Act we were you know concern.

We know making any phone calls was just gonna delay.

-- -- -- The divers remove the net for the brief.

And attempted to told the -- back to pick them we try to drag and in the lines on break -- this thing must have been or 500.

They managed to get it close to the shoreline.

The military dive club which consists of Department of Defense -- US military members has been around since 1956.

No officials say after watching the video they determined what the divers did what's necessary to save the animal's life.

And thanked him for directions.

We were happy and I mean that that made our day -- -- a tiny cage who went to news of -- news leader.

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