Diver who freed sharks gets Trump pardon after felony conviction stuns him: 'My heart sank'

[shockedcanadian]

Now that Trump has been a victim of lawfare he is sensitive to the abuses of law and justice. We need such leadership in Canada to reign in abusers, especially of our young and vulnerable.

Diver who freed sharks gets Trump pardon after felony conviction stuns him: 'My heart sank'

Trump pardons Florida diver who faced felony charges after cutting a longline and releasing 19 sharks, believing he was stopping illegal fishing activity.

www.foxnews.com

A Florida-based diver thought he was doing the right thing when he freed a group of sharks—but instead, it led to a felony charge and, years later, a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

On May 28, Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were two of the sixteen recipients of Trump’s full pardons after the pair were convicted in 2020 of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.

Mansell, 31, of Jupiter, Fla., reflected on the fateful day leading to his conviction and the eventual unexpected pardon from the White House.

In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site. A longline is a type of deep-sea fishing gear with baited hooks to catch fish.

"It was just another ordinary day on the water," Mansell said. "I had been running trips there for years and never had anything like this happen. I spotted something red in the distance thinking that, you know, maybe it was trash or a diver," he said. "We saw that it was a buoy connected to a line, which is when we started calling law enforcement."

Unaware that the longline belonged to a legally sanctioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shark research operation, Mansell and his team acted swiftly and cut the line. They released 19 sharks back into the ocean.

 

[Foxfyre]

Now that Trump has been a victim of lawfare he is sensitive to the abuses of law and justice. We need such leadership in Canada to reign in abusers, especially of our young and vulnerable.

Diver who freed sharks gets Trump pardon after felony conviction stuns him: 'My heart sank'

Trump pardons Florida diver who faced felony charges after cutting a longline and releasing 19 sharks, believing he was stopping illegal fishing activity.

www.foxnews.com

A Florida-based diver thought he was doing the right thing when he freed a group of sharks—but instead, it led to a felony charge and, years later, a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

On May 28, Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were two of the sixteen recipients of Trump’s full pardons after the pair were convicted in 2020 of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.

Mansell, 31, of Jupiter, Fla., reflected on the fateful day leading to his conviction and the eventual unexpected pardon from the White House.

In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site. A longline is a type of deep-sea fishing gear with baited hooks to catch fish.

"It was just another ordinary day on the water," Mansell said. "I had been running trips there for years and never had anything like this happen. I spotted something red in the distance thinking that, you know, maybe it was trash or a diver," he said. "We saw that it was a buoy connected to a line, which is when we started calling law enforcement."

Unaware that the longline belonged to a legally sanctioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shark research operation, Mansell and his team acted swiftly and cut the line. They released 19 sharks back into the ocean.

What was the NOAA doing catching sharks that way? Doesn't seem very humane.

 

[Rigby5]

What NOAA was doing seems illegal to me.
Tying up sharks to a line kills them because they have to keep swimming in order to get enough oxygen into their gills.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Now that Trump has been a victim of lawfare he is sensitive to the abuses of law and justice. We need such leadership in Canada to reign in abusers, especially of our young and vulnerable.

Diver who freed sharks gets Trump pardon after felony conviction stuns him: 'My heart sank'

Trump pardons Florida diver who faced felony charges after cutting a longline and releasing 19 sharks, believing he was stopping illegal fishing activity.

www.foxnews.com

A Florida-based diver thought he was doing the right thing when he freed a group of sharks—but instead, it led to a felony charge and, years later, a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

On May 28, Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were two of the sixteen recipients of Trump’s full pardons after the pair were convicted in 2020 of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.

Mansell, 31, of Jupiter, Fla., reflected on the fateful day leading to his conviction and the eventual unexpected pardon from the White House.

In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site. A longline is a type of deep-sea fishing gear with baited hooks to catch fish.

"It was just another ordinary day on the water," Mansell said. "I had been running trips there for years and never had anything like this happen. I spotted something red in the distance thinking that, you know, maybe it was trash or a diver," he said. "We saw that it was a buoy connected to a line, which is when we started calling law enforcement."

Unaware that the longline belonged to a legally sanctioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shark research operation, Mansell and his team acted swiftly and cut the line. They released 19 sharks back into the ocean.

So he was trying to impress the police chief and SWAT officer? And/or he was acting as if that part of the ocean was his turf and he was going to do something about what he saw as an intrusion?

 

[LeftofLeft]

Who is outraged and is going to use the cry “we are a na

 

[LeftofLeft]

Who is outraged and is going to use the cry “we are a nation of laws”!

 

[DigitalDrifter]

So he was trying to impress the police chief and SWAT officer? And/or he was acting as if that part of the ocean was his turf and he was going to do something about what he saw as an intrusion?

So here we go, you're already trying to make these guys look bad. Something tells me if this would have been say, Biden that issued the pardons, you would be applauding these guys.

 

[gtopa1]

Now that Trump has been a victim of lawfare he is sensitive to the abuses of law and justice. We need such leadership in Canada to reign in abusers, especially of our young and vulnerable.

Diver who freed sharks gets Trump pardon after felony conviction stuns him: 'My heart sank'

Trump pardons Florida diver who faced felony charges after cutting a longline and releasing 19 sharks, believing he was stopping illegal fishing activity.

www.foxnews.com

A Florida-based diver thought he was doing the right thing when he freed a group of sharks—but instead, it led to a felony charge and, years later, a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.

On May 28, Tanner Mansell and John Moore Jr. were two of the sixteen recipients of Trump’s full pardons after the pair were convicted in 2020 of theft of property within special maritime jurisdiction.

Mansell, 31, of Jupiter, Fla., reflected on the fateful day leading to his conviction and the eventual unexpected pardon from the White House.

In April 2020, Mansell and Moore took a group, which included the Kansas City police chief and a SWAT officer, and encountered a buoy connected to a longline over a dive site. A longline is a type of deep-sea fishing gear with baited hooks to catch fish.

"It was just another ordinary day on the water," Mansell said. "I had been running trips there for years and never had anything like this happen. I spotted something red in the distance thinking that, you know, maybe it was trash or a diver," he said. "We saw that it was a buoy connected to a line, which is when we started calling law enforcement."

Unaware that the longline belonged to a legally sanctioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shark research operation, Mansell and his team acted swiftly and cut the line. They released 19 sharks back into the ocean.

I have ZERO sympathy for them really; sharks are deadly predators and kill people here in Oz on a regular basis. I am totally FOR keeping them away from people and finding out more about controlling them. However, they're bloody fish so if the divers acted in good faith then fair enough; no charges please. Maybe if the NOAA had put a name on the buoy then no problem.

Greg

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I'm ambivalent on this. They meddled in something that was none of their business. This sounds like the kind of nonsense PETA or climate activists would do.