A seal bit a passenger on a Russian cruiseship during a shore visit in the South Atlantic, leading to a long-range rescue operation by several UK military assets.

The Royal Navy said the passenger on the 2,280-gt Akademik Sergey Vavilov (built 1988) suffered the fur seal attack on South Georgia Island’s Salisbury Plain Beach, 1,500 kilometres from British forces on the Falkland Islands.

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