Britons Make Seal Pup Rescue a Part-time Passion GWEEK, England
A stocky British construction surveyor appears an unlikely
savior for three plump bundles of white fur named Rush, Nettle,
and Sweetpea. But when Dave Jarvis took his family to see the
seals at Britain's National Seal Sanctuary in the tiny Cornish
village of Gweek, he discovered a passion for saving seal pups
from savage seas and monitoring the world's biggest gray seal
population. "We used to come down as a family to visit the seal
sanctuary, and there was one little fellow called Thunder that
was in a bit of a state. He'd lost an eye, one of his flippers
was ripped, and the wife got all sentimental," he said. October
through the end of November is the busy pupping season for
Jarvis and other members of British Divers Marine Life Rescue,
one of a number of groups who rescue pups separated from their
mothers and bring them to the sanctuary in Cornwall on the
southwest tip of Britain. With the seal sanctuary at its hub,
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