Easy

Israel's sea turtle monitoring program

A project of Israel Nature and Parks Authrity.

click map for full-size version Easy (Loggerhead) is 10 km W off the coast of Israel and 53 km from Tel Aviv

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Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Release Date: 2014-08-29 10:00:00
Release Location: Gdor nature reserve - Israel
Last Location: 2014-10-18 06:19:48

Adoptive Parents:
Krystal Reynolds
2KE 2014 Australian International School Singapore

Background

Easy is an adult Loggerhead sea turtle, she arrived at the rescue center on 22/12/2012 and upon arrival weighed 37 kg.
She was found south of Hadera River, she was named after a parrot belonging to Yana (the woman who found her).
Easy came in weak, exhausted, apathetic and barely reacted to her surroundings. Her eyes were swollen and red.
She was taken to Dr. Tzahi Izenberg who performed a CT and found that she had blood and fluids in her lungs and an injury to her skull which was pressing on her eyes.
These kind of injuries are common in turtles hit by shock waves (usually from seismic surveys).
She received fluids, antibiotics and vitamins to help her heal and recover. For a long period of time (almost a year) she refused to eat and kept losing weight, while the volunteers and rescue center staff tried every day for hours on end to hand feed her, until at some point she miraculously began to eat!
Today she has more of an appetite, is more active and has gained weight.
Throughout the whole time she was at the rescue center she had regular visits with Dr. Izenberg for CT's and X-rays in which he could see that slowly the amount of fluids in her lungs was decreasing, until finally in the last CT he said that she is in much better condition and is ready to be released!
On the 10/8/2014 a satellite transmitter was placed on her carapace, she was measured and weighed, she now weighs 49.5 kg's and on Friday the 29/8/2014 after a year and nine month long stay at the rescue center, she was released back to the sea!
Feel free to follow her on the tracking website!