TurtleCam #50 - Through A Sea Turtle's Eyes In the Bahamas!

In the TurtleCam project, I am temporarily mounting cameras onto the shell's of sea turtles to gain scientific insights into their secret lives. Each week from today, I will share a new TurtleCam video on YouTube to help raise awareness for sea turtle conservation!

Video 50 of 60. This video was filmed in Eleuthera (The Bahamas) and it features a green turtle (Chelonia mydas).

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Check out the next TurtleCam video: https://youtu.be/auMeYjG1TNo
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Have you ever wondered what it is like to swim through the ocean like a sea turtle? We certainly have, and the idea of seeing the world through the eyes of a sea turtle inspired us to start the ‘TurtleCam’ project. These devices, or TurtleCams, are made up of a small dive camera, a radio transmitter, and an upcycled fishing buoy. Each of these items is glued together to create a device that can be mounted directly on the shell of a free-swimming sea turtle using corrodible links that detach within a few hours allowing us to recover it and the footage it contains. These TurtleCams are providing us with a first-person (or should it be first-turtle?) perspective of how sea turtles see the world around them.

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Funding for this project was provided by @noaa @PARALENZ @OceanX @IslandSchoolBahamas and anonymous donors.