The perfect Bahamas wedding? It starts with turtles
Date Posted: May 20, 2019
Source: CNN
Eleuthera, Bahamas — Mask sealed, fins up, snorkel in place. There's an art to catching green sea turtles, and you've got to be in position, gear adjusted, ready to go.
Newly minted tracker David Cerna is perched on the bow of a flat-bottomed motor boat, eyes trained on the turtle all of the boat's occupants are watching, arms extended, index fingers pointing to keep it in sight and help the marine biologist at the tiller follow its movements.
When the moment is right, Cerna slides off the bow into shallow water with an awkward splash and emerges with a sizable turtle, flippers flapping.
Cheers erupt from the boat. Success!
Another endangered green sea turtle's data -- shell and head dimensions, weight, defining characteristics -- will soon be logged, and the turtle will be tagged and released back into Savannah Sound, an almost impossibly aqua-colored, juvenile green sea turtle habitat off the Bahamian island of Eleuthera.
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