Alex - Israel's sea turtle monitoring program

A project of Israel Nature and Parks Authrity.

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Background

Alex is an adult Loggerhead sea turtle. He arrived to the rescue center in November 2017 after drowning in a trawler net. Upon his arrival Alex was exhausted and his breaths were quick and shallow. Alex life was at threat. The respiratory distress was a clear sign that Alex had indeed taken sea water into his lungs. The rescue center's team preformed a novel resuscitation technique: lung lavage treatment. Alex recuperate quickly and breathed on his own. Alex was then treated with antibiotics to overcome pleural infection complications that is likely to occur in post drowning patients. At the rescue center, for four months the turtle enjoyed a rich diet and medical supervision which included CT scan, X rays, behavioral and blood analysis. Once Alex gained enough weight and his lab results showed healthy lungs he was finally released back to the sea.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'A', 'B', 'Z', 'X' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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