Al Ruechel, Your Technology
SeaTurtle.org is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the preservation and understanding of sea turtles.
If you notice at the top of the site, you can select the "Multimedia" icon for podcast information on a variety of topics.
"ImageLib" is an image library of lots of pictures of turtles.
"Maptool" lets you print up a map of the world's oceans, so you can track sea turtles on your own.
The meat and potatoes of this site., however, is the next link: "Tracking."
When a turtle is found and rehabbed, a tracking device is often glued to the turtle, so scientists can monitor where the animal travels via satellite.
We are told the device, with its short antenna, does not hurt the animal.
Among the turtles you can track is a loggerhead named King. He was found April 27, 2006, suffering from parasites in the blood and red tide.
King was released back into the wild about two weeks ago.
To track King, find his name on the left-hand side menu, under "Mote Marine Laboratory - Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital." Agree not to use the site's information to harm the turtle, and you get to King's tracking page.
Click on the "Animated Map" link, and you can see a daily track.
King appears to still be a little disoriented. He was one of the first male loggerheads to be tracked, and since red tide may have made him ill, scientists wanted to monitor King's interaction with red tide.
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