U.S. Coast Guard helps release more than 25 rehabilitated sea turtles into the Gulf Stream

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U.S. Coast Guard helps release more than 25 rehabilitated sea turtles into the Gulf Stream

Photo by N.E.S.T. The Network for Endangered Sea Turtles (N.E.S.T.), N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island, and Coast Guardsmen from Station Hatteras Inlet recently teamed up to release more than 25 rehabilitated sea turtles into the warmer waters of the Gulf Stream, roughly 13 miles offshore. The sea turtles, (which included green sea turtles, a Kemps Ridley sea turtle, and one loggerhead), were recent cold-stunned patients at the Sea Turtle Assistan…