A kangaroo three kilometers offshore was lifted onto a boat
A crew in Boston Bay, off Port Lincoln, found a male kangaroo in the water, brought him onto the boat, and later watched him hop away from the beach.
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A male kangaroo was in the water about three kilometers offshore in Boston Bay, near Port Lincoln. ABC reported on October 21, 2026, that diver and farmer Jake Murray, skipper Ryan Smith, and crewmate Miguel Villarroel, a diver from the Galápagos, lowered a sea door and lifted the animal aboard. Murray said it was the first kangaroo Villarroel had seen. Murray cradled it. The kangaroo was exhausted and waterlogged.
Murray did not know how it had reached open water. He guessed it might have been caught by the tide. On the beach it rested, then hopped away. The report is that rescue and that departure. It does not identify the kangaroo's species beyond the crew's account, and it does not follow the animal after it left the shore.
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A male kangaroo was in the sea about three kilometers from shore in Boston Bay, near Port Lincoln in South Australia. Diver and farmer Jake Murray, with skipper Ryan Smith and crewmate Miguel Villarroel, lifted him through a lowered door. Murray cradled the animal. It was exhausted and soaked. Murray did not know how the kangaroo had got there. He thought the tide might have carried it out. On the beach the animal rested, then hopped away. The photo with this story is a different kangaroo on land, not the one from the bay.
- How did the crew get the kangaroo out of the water?
- Why is it honest to say nobody knows how it got there?
- What did the kangaroo do once it was back on the beach?
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