Six Rare Turtles Returned To Original Habitat Thanks To Royal Navy

window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({article:'auto'}); !function (e, f, u, i) { if (!document.getElementById(i)){ e.async = 1; e.src = u; e.id = i; f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f); } }(document.createElement('script'), document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0], '//cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/zengernews-network/loader.js', 'tb_loader_script'); if(window.performance && typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');} window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-160618588-3',{'custom_map': {'dimension1': 'story_id'},'story_id': ''}); By Dean Murray Six rare turtles have been returned to their original Atlantic habitat thanks to the Royal Navy. It has linked up with two marine life organizations to deliver half a dozen loggerhead turtles to warmer waters after the creatures were washed up on the UK shores and nurtured back to health. The crew of HMS Medway released the vulnerable creatures off the Azores as the patrol ship headed towards the Caribbean. Strong winds and Atlantic currents swept the juvenile turtles from the Caribbean or Eastern Seaboard of the USA. Strong winds and Atlantic currents swept the juvenile turtles from the Caribbean or Eastern Seaboard of the USA. ROYAL NAVY VIA SWNS. Once in the cold waters around the UK, they quickly become ‘cold-stunned’ and would have died had they not been washed up and rescued. Five came ashore in Cornwall and Devon and have been cared...