Thursday, August 27, 2009

Photos of the Sea Turtle Release

On August 26, 2009, five rehabilitated sea turtles were released on Dowses Beach in Osterville, Massachusetts. In addition, a hybrid sea turtle named Simba (patient details here) was released at the same time by the University of New England (UNE) Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center. Find out more about each turtle's rescue story by scrolling through all the posts about Bubba, Casper, Dash, Iceman and Goose. You can also follow satellite tracking tags used as part of this release at seaturtle.org.


Flip through this slide show to see more photos from the release taken by education staff member Vickie Cataldo and volunteer Casey Fredette.



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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Iceman!



Iceman is a Kemp's ridley sea turtle that arrived to the New England Aquarium on November 20th 2008. The turtle stranded in Eastham at Cole Road Landing. Overall the turtle was not too bad off. You can see above to the left what it looked like upon arrival with the dried algae covering the majority of the carapace (top part of the shell) dehydrated and emaciated all symptoms of cold-stun which, is the primary reason for this turtle stranding. To the right of that picture is what this turtle looks like now.

Why Iceman?

Goose our green sea turtle arrived on the same day as Iceman. Goose... Iceman... Top Gun anybody?

Although, Goose was named after the gooseneck barnacles on the carapace that you can see in the picture below. Iceman's name stuck!

This turtle was also transported to the University of New England Marine Animal Rehabilitation Center during the cold-stun season. This turtle came back to the New England aquarium when we opened the Sea Turtle Recovery Room.




This turtle is doing great! Swimming and eating well, you can currently see this turtle with Casper in the right hand side window of the recovery room.




Hint: When trying to see the turtles in their underwater windows of the recovery room, if you don't see them swimming around or in one of their hideaways look to the bottom left corner they like to rest there.

-Adam


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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What's their story?

Currently we still have six sea turtles here in the Rescue and Rehabilitation department. You might know these turtles already, and if you don't follow the link to read all the posts about them.


Bubba



Casper



Goose

and last but certainly not least....

They are all still located in the Sea Turtle Recovery Room. There are two other turtles in there that you don't know about yet. The first one is Dash.


Dash

Dash came to us on November 1, 2008 from First Encounter beach in Eastham MA. Primary reason for stranding was due to cold-stun but this turtle had a 3 cm laceration on the left rear flipper (LRF). This laceration was repaired with staples. The turtle started doing well and was transported to the University of New England in Biddeford to make room for more turtles that were stranding on Cape Cod.



When we opened the Sea Turtle Recovery Room this was one of the turtles that came back to us. By then the staples had been removed and the laceration was completely healed. There was still some swelling and the turtle did not use that flipper all that often. We put it into one of the tanks that had a high flow rate giving it some turtle physical therapy like we gave Route.

Currently you can see Dash in the left window of the Rehab Center enjoying the hideaway and the turtle treadmill. Stay tuned for a future post about another turtle you might not know about ... Iceman.


Iceman

-Adam

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