Richard

Distribution of green sea turtles in the South Atlantic Bight

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Species: Green Turtle
Life Stage: Juvenile
Gender: Female
Release Date: 2020-11-04 17:56:00
Release Location: St. Augustine, FL
Last Location: 2021-07-19 16:04:04

Adoptive Parents:
AJ H.
Denayah Haseleu
Kayley Cordell
Tom Keenan
Aluttrell84@gmail.com
Captain Donald McDowell
Kristin Segal
Clayton Kallwitz
Lady Seraphina E Hicks & Lady Jessica M Hicks
Kristin Hammons
Mallory kids
Magner Nobil
Darryl Lindsay
Kathryn Rose
Steve Tilley
Connor Maloney
Gage Montgomery
Elle Adkins
Sasha Labonte
Mikey Brownlee
Noah Krawchick

Background

"Richard" is 48cm (15 kg) green sea turtle that stranded with emaciation on Daytona Beach in April 2020. Through collaboration with the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory Sea Turtle Hospital and the Sea Turtle Conservancy, "Richard" was tagged with a satellite transmitter following successful rehabilitation. "Richard" is a size of sea turtle that is infrequently captured by in-water surveys, so has a high research interest value despite being a sample size (n) of one. The Telonics TAM-4310 transmitter weighs 150 g and represents 1% of body weight, and the frontal area (FA) drag is about 15% which falls within the "acceptable" category (Figure 3c) as noted by Jones et al. (2013).