EDMONTON JOURNAL (Alberta) 04 May 06 Loggerhead turtle rescued in Georgia
Brunswick, Ga.: State wildlife officials rescued an injured 225-kilogram loggerhead sea turtle and sent it to Florida with the hopes experts there could nurse it back to health.
The massive male loggerhead's shell was cracked when it was spotted Monday floating in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. "It had been there for a few days," said Mark Dodd, a wildlife biologist and co-ordinator of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' sea turtle program. "Gas had built up in his shell because of the injury and was preventing him from submerging."