Posts by Turtle Hospital

Over the past few months, we have admitted quite a few sea turtles with boat strike injuries. Yoshi came in March 13th with a wound[…]

Emerald Arrival: 5/7/16 Species: Green Weight: 70 lbs Location: Elbow Reef, Key Largo Reason: Emaciated, old boat strike, and Gas. Gender: Unknown UPDATED: 8/11/16 Swimming in[…]

Tonight we welcome in Emerald, a 70 lbs. Green sea turtle. Emerald is emaciated and has a severely damaged/deformed shell, likely from a boat strike[…]

For the past two years we have released turtles with satellite tags as part of Sea Turtle Conservancy’s Tour de Turtles (www.tourdeturtles.org). Pine Tyme in[…]

These four turtles have been growing up together at the hospital. Copper, Bowser, Penny, and Nemo are weighed and measured every Sunday to track their[…]

We had an update request for our little “Sparty”! Sparty is one of our many patients treated for FP tumors. Sparty arrived on Chrismas eve[…]

“Lucy” is an absolute miracle story. Lucy is a juvenile Green found entangled in a giant clump of junk that washed onto shore last Saturday.[…]

The Turtle Hospital is excited to announce a public sea turtle release scheduled for Saturday, February 27th at 12:00 p.m. off of Higg’s Beach behind Salute restaurant, 1000 Atlantic[…]

Seven new patients are settling in tonight. Sea Lion, Zebra, Vampire Bat, Eros, Uakari, Xerus, and Walrus are juvenile FP greens that washed up near[…]

Sam Arrival: 2/1/16 Species: Green Weight: 59 lbs Location: Sugarloaf Key Reason: Floating with Bubble Butt  Gender: Unkown   UPDATED: 6/2/16 Got some temporary lead weights[…]

Our newest patient “Boo” is settling in after his/her rescue in Key West last Tuesday. Thanks to The Key West Wildlife Center for helping get[…]

George Arrival: 2/17/11 Species: Green Weight: 15 lbs Location: New Smyrna Reason: FP and Boat strike Gender: Female   UPDATED: 6/3/14 UPDATE: 6/8/2014 Transferred to World[…]