Don't you just love a scuba-diving rescue story? Some of our favorites include divers who have freed entangled whale sharks and manta rays.

But a pet terrapin?

Debbie Smy lives in Isle of Wight, England, and was removing her three pet terrapins from a garden pond to bring them in for the winter when she realized she was missing one. After wading into the 4-foot-deep pond herself to look for Dilys and coming up empty-handed, Smy called in a scuba diver for help.

Martin Woodward, who is a deep diver who has logged some dives as deep as 600 feet, donned his full scuba diving kit to successfully rescue the tiny female red-eared terrapin in a 20-minute dive in 4-foot dirty, murky water.

Smy has owned Dilys for 25 years. It's common to confuse the terrapin, turtle, and tortoise species. Turtles are sea chelonians, tortoises are land chelonians, and terrapins are freshwater chelonians that spend some time on land. Today, terrapins face threats from loss of habitat and from vehicles that run them over as they attempt to cross roads in search of a place to lay eggs, etc.

We're glad little Dilys is safe.

Read the full story in the UK-based Mirror.