![]() Actively diving down and resting on bottom without encouragement! Previously thought to be unrealasable due to brain hemhorraging causing continual floating for first 8 months of rehab, but now a candidate for release! Has a HUGE appetite and is gradually gaining weight. Scar tissue has filled in left front carapace. Learning to swim with just front flippers as he has paralysis in the tail and rear flippers. Eating on own and off antibiotics! Wound is healing extremely well.While we prepare for the expected influx of boat hit patients, here is an update on some of our current patients recovering from boat strikes: At the onset of lobster season, they become increasingly more vulnerable to boat strikes and propeller wounds in the shallow waters. ![]() The waters around the Florida Keys only have an average depth of six feet, making cruising, napping and foraging sea turtles easy targets. On the way out to lay the traps, boats are often riding lower in the water due to the added weight of the heavy lobster traps. ![]() With the impending lobster season, not only do we get a number of loggerheads in with entanglements and impactions, but we also take in more turtles that have been hit by boats. Many folks who have visited The Turtle Hospital in the past few months are inquiring about the progress of some of our boat hit survivors.
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