For the first time, scientists tag a loggerhead sea turtle off US West Coast
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 11 May, 2015
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Fifty miles out to sea from San Diego, in the middle of April, under a perfectly clear blue sky, fisheries scientists leaned over the side of a rubber inflatable boat and lowered a juvenile loggerhead sea turtle into the water. That turtle was a trailblazer -- the first of its kind ever released off the West Coast of the United States with a satellite transmitter attached....