Edisto - South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Rescue Program

A project of South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Rescue Program.

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Background

"Edisto," a 148 kg adult male loggerhead, was rescued from the Atlantic Ocean off of Edisto Beach, SC on May 21, 2007. A crab trap rope was entangled around his back, left flipper, cutting deeply to the bone. The animal was rehabilitated at the South Carolina Aquarium's Turtle Hospital, and weighing 148 kg at release, is the largest sea turtle treated at the facility. SC Department of Natural Resources Sea Turtle Program and the South Carolina Aquarium are partnering on this satellite telemetry project to track this animal's migrations. "Edisto" will be the first adult male loggerhead to be satellite tagged and released off South Carolina's coast.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '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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