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Age Class | Subadult |
Gender | Unknown |
Date Stranded | November 27, 2005 |
Location of Stranding | Offshore from Anna Maria Island |
Date of Arrival | November 27, 2005 |
Number of Days of Care | 171 days |
Released May 18, 2006 from Lido Beach
This turtle was rescued by a dredge trawler off Anna Maria Island. It had an old injury to a front flipper and a newer fracture to its caudal carapace. It has been started on antibiotics and antifungals and the wounds have been cleaned and debrided. 12/4 Dealing with infection in the fracture site, but turtle is alert and active. 12/9 Turtle is still not eating, but is otherwise active. 12/16 Turtle has finally begun to eat and wounds are healing. 12/20 Turtle is now eating very well. 1/2/06 Turtle is gaining weight and healing well. 1/13 Continuing to do very well. 1/24 Carapace is now beginning to heal and turtle continues to gain weight. 2/1 Continuing to do very well. 2/11 Slowly healing and eating well. 2/22 Turtle is continuing to gain weight and heal. 3/5 More of the same. 3/12 Turtle continues to do very well. 3/22 Turtle is still doing very well and healing well. Should be releasable as soon as carapace heals more. 3/29 Continuing to do very well. 4/11 Turtle continues healing well. 4/24 Still doing very well. Will probably be ready for release in about a month or so. 5/2 Continuing to do well. 5/12 Turtle is doing very well and will likely be releasing it within two weeks. 5/18 Turtle was released this morning from Lido Beach. It swam away strongly.