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And Away We Go!

by | Jan 25, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Release

It takes many moving parts to take a sea turtle from being found on the beach to being released in the ocean.  One of our fantastic partners is the United States Coast Guard – not only are they out there every day keeping humans safe on the water, they are...

January 6-10

by | Jan 21, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Rehab Residents, Rehab Center

Greetings rehab supporters!  We’d like to introduce more of our current rehab residents.  Once again we were fortunate to be able to transfer some of our admissions to other facilities to lessen our overflow so they won’t be shown individually on the...

Introducing…

by | Jan 16, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Rehab Residents

Now that things have slowed down a little, we’d like to introduce some of our new patients. These turtles were all found stranded on January 3-5, 2013. Please meet:   “Neptune” LK-JMG-130103-02 Kemp’s Ridley, 15.7lbs: Neptune was found...

Turtle Tetris

by | Jan 13, 2013 | N.E.S.T. Release, Rehab Center

48 cold stunned sea turtles since Christmas Day.  Just where do we put all of them? When space is filled in our small rehab center, we take over some room in the Aquarium quarantine facility.  When we have a crisis event that brings in large numbers of turtles we turn...

It’s Crunch Time

by | Jan 6, 2013 | Rehab Center

We’ve had over 20 live stranded sea turtles collected in the past 3 days in the Outer Banks!  To see a map of our recent strandings, visit our friends over at Seaturtle.org: http://www.seaturtle.org/strand/summary/NC/google.shtml Once we have a chance to...