A couple months back, I worked at a sea turtle hospital in Florida and we had a Kemp's Ridley Turtle, "Johnnie," come in. She was considered "famous" because she somehow floated up to the Netherlands and then was sent to Portugal before coming to our facility and she was fitted with a satellite transmitter.


When recently looking up her tracking device, I found this on her website...

"As Johnnie approached Grand Isle, she encountered an oil spill near the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port. The oil spill story and photos are online. http://blog.skytruth.org/2011/03/gulf-spill-not-so-fast-problem-at-loop.html http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/rkistner/gulf_oil_source_found_but_slic.html http://media.nola.com/2010_gulf_oil_spill/photo/map-oil-032311jpg-ac481095c236d2b1.jpg" http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=113650

It is crazy to think that with all the time and work it takes to rehabilitate an animal, somethings are destined to happen