{"id":661844,"date":"2025-12-30T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:58:08","slug":"rowing-team-crossing-atlantic-ocean-stops-to-rescue-sea-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661844\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing team crossing Atlantic Ocean stops to rescue sea turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; A British rowing team competing in an Atlantic Ocean endurance challenge stopped to rescue a large sea turtle they found entangled in a discarded net.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the Hampshire-based Call to Earth team &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/John_Hammond\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"John Hammond\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hammond<\/a>, Stacey Rivers and Emma Wolstenholme &#8212; said they were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cy9577jy329o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> about 895 miles into<\/a> their more than 3,000-mile Atlantic crossing as part of the World&#8217;s Toughest Row when they spotted the turtle entangled in marine debris.\n<\/p>\n<p>They posted a video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSzSO-EDCVS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to Instagram<\/a> showing how they paused their journey to free the large turtle and send it on its way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re rowing the Atlantic in support of Blue Marine Foundation and The Ocean Cleanup, to protect the very oceans that carry us forward,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;This is more than a race, it&#8217;s a reminder that the ocean needs us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 29 (UPI) &#8212; A British rowing team competing in an Atlantic Ocean endurance challenge stopped to rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[933,46356,202272,46355,70,16,15,1544,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-661844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-funny","10":"tag-john-hammond","11":"tag-odd","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-weird","16":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115806988034763222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}