We are very proud to announce that we have reached our rescue target for the year. On 01 October, while kayaking, Naude caught this beautiful seal with a piece of PPE clothing around his neck. We always knew that the Corona rubbish would find us eventually!

We have seen this entangled seal before, but he got away the first time. The second time, we were luckier and he was treated to the golden Leatherman Raptor Shears to celebrate our achievement.

It took us an extra month last year to reach this number, so we are expecting a lot more rescues for 2022. We will continue until breeding season forces us to stop, but we should have a few more good weeks. Our seals seem to be in excellent health, much better than the last two years. There is no sign of a mass die off, just the usual, natural mortality rate.
We are incredibly proud of the team work that has got us to this point and we are determined to help as many seals as possible while using seal rescue videos to highlight the global ocean rubbish and plastic pollution crisis.

There are two more things we want to let you know:

1. We have just received the final version of our documentary "Cutting The Line". It is so hot off the press, we have not even watched it ourselves. A lot of work, time, sweat and possibly tears went into this production and we are very grateful for Now Now Media and our sponsors Plastic Oceans, Leatherman and GoPro for believing in us and our story. We do not know yet when and where it will air, but you will be the first ones to know!

2. We have recently started to upload shorts to our Youtube channel. Those videos are similar to TikTok. They are much shorter and appeal to a different audience, an audience we try very hard to reach. Our strategy seems to pay off, we had 50.000 new subscribers in the past two weeks and our views have skyrocketed. We continue to upload our regular video every day, the short is an additional one in a different format. Those shorts are lacking deeper information, but we are working on solutions how we can put our seal rescues into a plastic crisis context, away from a "cute rescue" video.

We are getting ready to meet up with a german film crew from RTL today, and we will continue to celebrate our milestone of 600 successful rescues. Please celebrate with us by collecting some rubbish, and by not having fish and seafood for a day or week or ever again.

Thank you from OCN