Ronen - Israel's sea turtle monitoring program

A project of Israel Nature and Parks Authrity.

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Background

Ronen is a sub-adult Loggerhead sea turtle. She arrived at the center in February 2018 after being accidentally caught in a fishing net and drowned. Upon arrival Ronen showed no signs of life. We immediately inserted a tube down her breathing canal to help her breath. Through the tube we suctioned over half a liter of sea water from her lungs and she underwent a special procedure to wash the salts and mucus left in her lungs. That same evening Ronen was already breathing oxygen enriched air on her own and it seemed she was beginning to recover. Over the next couple of weeks Ronen was treated with antibiotics to insure her injury wouldn't develop into an infection and was x-rayed to insure there were no more injuries. Now that Ronen is breathing normally and eating on her own she is ready to go home.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
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• 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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