A kayak guide in Namibia chased down and freed two Cape fur seals that were caught in old fishing gear on the beach.

Schalk Louw first spotted a seal pup with a hook in its eye socket on Pelican Point peninsula, near Walvis Bay on May 24, 2019.

The pup's eye had already been removed by a gull some time before, and the hook had been lodged into the unfortunate pup's eye socket.

The same day, there was another pup in the water with a trawler line around its neck so Louw waited till the pup went onto the beach, then ran in and caught the pup.

Using his braid scissors he managed to cut the trawler line off, then freed it.

Today Schalk Louw spotted a seal pup with a hook, when he ran in he noticed the hook was actually in they eye socket, they eye of the pup was already removed by a gull and it was just bad misfortune that the hook ended up where the eye was supposed to be.

The next rescue there was a pup in the water with trawler line around its neck so Louw waited till the pup went to the beach, once the pup was on the beach he ran in and caught the pup. Using his braid scissors he managed to cut the trawler line off and freed the seal. You can see how constricted some of the lines were so it’s good that he got the line off before it started to cut in.

This rescue was filmed on a gopro hero7black