Members of the Coast Guard, NOAA, The Marine Mammal Center and volunteers load a Hawaiian monk seal aboard an HC-130 Hercules airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point to travel from Kona, Hawaii, to Oahu April 14, 2016. Seven monk seals were brought to The Marine Mammal Center's Ke Kai Ola rehabilitation facility in Fall 2015 for care prior to being released back into the wild in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers/Released - National Marine Fisheries Permit No. 18786)
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