Posts in Current Patients Blog

It has been a long journey for a young green sea turtle rescued on the first of November, nicknamed ‘Fitzy’. Fitzy was found with heavy[…]

Just when one Loggerhead gets healthy enough for release, another comes in sick! Turtle Hospital staff was thrilled to release a subadult Loggerhead named ‘Grace’[…]

The Turtle Hospital has been busy the past few days! With people from around the world enjoying spring break, we have had record amounts of[…]

Turtle Hospital staff is getting ready for our next release! Today, a pre-release exam was completed in preparation for the release of a subadult Loggerhead[…]

At the end of August 2012, a tiny Green named Timmy arrived at the hospital, found floating and debilitated from Fibropapilloma tumors. After a few[…]

Turtle Hospital received patient number 30 yesterday afternoon! This little one was spotted by turtle rescuer Melinda Smith in Key Largo. After seeing this turtle a[…]

In addition to the 18 turtles currently undergoing rehabilitation, The Turtle Hospital houses 11 “permanent resident” turtles that have been deemed non-releasable. For several different[…]

On December 10, 2012, The Turtle Hospital received a new patient found by Biscayne National Park Rangers Katie and Christina. Along with fibropappiloma tumors, this[…]

Last Wednesday was an extremely busy day here at the hospital.  In the morning, as we had three turtles undergoing surgery for FP tumor removal,[…]

Sunday, February 24th was a beautiful day to be out on the water in the Florida Keys, and for The Turtle Hospital that means there are[…]

Javier, Jasmin, Jenny, and Olvidio regularly fish in the Florida Keys, but they’ve never had a day quite like yesterday! At around 5 p.m. Turtle Hospital[…]

Rescuers, Jack and Kellie, spotted a sea turtle in the early afternoon of January 13th in the neighborhood canal and thought nothing of it, turtles[…]