A young French lady and her team had gained the attention of netizens after she released a video that shows the danger of plastic straw in in marine life. The research team in collaboration with Christine Figgener and Dr. Nathan J. Robinson found a male Olive Ridley sea turtle during a research in Costa Rica.
The team decided to help the sea turtle to be more comfortable with breathing, they got their available tools, Plier of a swiss army knife which was the only available tools as they were oceans a few hours away from the coast and several hours away from any vet and x-ray machines, plus the team might be fined for removing the turtle, since it is beyond their research permits.
At first, they had thought the material in the turtle nose is a plastic worm. Why removing the plastic surgery, the turtle can be seen in pain and was obviously not enjoying the method adopted to remove what is in her nose.
After much trial, the team was able to remove the plastic straw from the tortoise nose, and was later kept for observation, and then off to the world it truly belongs.
The team also makes it known that the turtle disinfected the air passageway with iodine. The blood also stops after the tortoise was disinfected.
The team also said that the turtle probably ate a "straw" and later tried to be regurgitate it, unfortunately the nasal cavity of sea turtles is connected directly to the palate (roof of the mouth) by a long nasopharyngeal duct, which might have caused the straw to pass the wrong passage way.
Watch how they removed the straw here :
Please note that the researchers are also looking to fund their research and study more about their project, if you are willing to help, help fund their Gofundme to help in more researches.