Duffy - Georgia Sea Turtle Center - Monitoring of Rehabilitated Patients

A project of Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

Static Map | Zoom Map | Animated Map (389KB) Subscribe to Project Updates Looks like Duffy finally decided to leave the area and, after a brief stop south of Jacksonville, is headed south for the winter! We wish her well and hope she will continue to transmit a signal for some time so we can all continue to follow her journey!

Background

Duffy was found on June 11, 2008 by the Georgia Bulldog, a research vessel that catches, studies and releases sea turtles. Duffy had obvious evidence of a boat strike injury and was immediately transferred to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center (GSTC) for immediate care. Her shell was fractured, she had a broken femur and her wounds were severely infected. Her in initial treatment consisted of Reglin for gut motility, an anti-fungal (itraconazole), antibiotics (Flagyl & Ceftazidime), metacam for pain and honey & honey comb for wound care. Honey and honey comb has antimicrobial roperties that draw infection out of a wound. We have used this technique on a number of cases, all with fantastic results! Less than one year after her arrival, Duffy was cleared for release!

On June 10, 2009, Duffy received a final physical exam, flipper tags, a PIT tag and a satellite transmitter. Duffy was released with another loggerhead named Simone (check out Simone's tracking map too!) on June 13, 2009 during the final event of week-long event in celebration of our 2 year anniversary known as Nest Fest (check out our website-www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org--and BLOG for information about Nest Fest!)

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.

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