First day of sea turtles!! Sadly, we only had one sea turtle come in that day.

This is how the day went:
We had to load all the equipment onto the boats, Teffy (Veterinarian) and Callie (research assistant) put out the net and six of us jumped into the water and made sure to knot it and untangle it. It was hard because the water was really deep and the net was two hundred meters long. It took about ten to fifteen minutes to untangle everything. The turtle (tortuga) was a male, Hawksbill. He was a turtle they had caught last year back in November. He had a tracker cemented on him back then, but it fell off – the tracker not the cement. Teffy had David (pronounced Dah-veed), the boat driver, use a little machete and take off the other part of the tracker in cement. It took about an hour. When the turtle first came in the nets, I was the only person on the beach with Teffy and Callie. The two girls got into the boat and went to go pick up the turtle. While the second boat was coming in to pick us up, I went to get some of the group that had left to go exploring. Part of the group came back, and we hopped into the boats and sailed to go get the sea turtle. We went over and watched Teffy and Callie take out the sea turtle. It was fun to watch; although the turtle did try and snap at Callie a couple of times.  When we got him on the beach, Teffy took blood samples, food samples, skin samples, got his weight and measurements of his carapace and plastron. When we released him, he swam away quickly – I was honestly shocked at how fast! Overall, it was a really cool experience.