TurtleCam #59 - Through a sea turtle's eyes in the Oceanografic!

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 58 of 60. This video was filmed in the Oceanografic de Valencia (The Bahamas) and it features a loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta).

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Check out the next TurtleCam video: https://youtu.be/AqkYehE7qZE
Check out all our TurtleCam videos here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdX1kHCE3VynkkEudrTSijCsKytU_BeMY

TurtleCams are made from 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.