In a world full of troubling news, it is refreshing to encounter a situation which highlights the best of humanity. On Tuesday, someone aboard a Navy patrol boat spotted something unusual in the water off the coast of Sri Lanka, an island country in South Asia.
According to multiple sources, the unusual object turned out to be an elephant who had been swept out to sea – the struggling animal was miles from shore, by some accounts, up to ten miles from land. Personnel aboard the Navy boat called for help and a rescue mission to save the distressed elephant ensued.
It took a great deal of patience, and upwards of 12 hours, but rescuers were able to gently pull the elephant back to shore with ropes – on land, the animal was checked over and found to be in good health. Great job Sri Lanka Navy!
Watch the amazing video of this rescue effort below.
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SO beautiful! Wish we could’ve seen the arrival on shore….
I wonder. What’s up with the night time video? They don’t show the elephant landing on shore and then there’s a video shot at night. Very curious what really happened.
How is an elephant “washed out to sea” 10 miles from shore? This seems unlikely.
I LOVE hearing good stories!! Most of the stories on this site on gut wrenching horror stories. THANK YOU Sri Lanka Navy!!
IS THE ELEPHANT ALL RIGHT ??? HOW HAD HE BE IN THE WATER ?????
I hope the elephant survived. The video doesn’t show the elephant landing on shore.
There’s still goodness in the world. Thank you Sri Lanka Navy for saving the elephant. I wonder how did the elephant got swept out to sea?
You said it best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMAZING! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! Thank you HEROES!!!!
Such good and wonderful news from petsrecueport. Usually the news,are always bad. There are good people in this world.
Giant THANK YOU to Sri Lanka Navy for being heroes to this elephant – if it weren’t for your patience and commitment this animal would have died – GOOD JOB!
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Great job, Rescuers! Thank you for your patience and effort in saving this elephant.