A TOTAL of 53 turtles were placed into the rehabilitation facility at uShaka Sea World Rehabilitation Centre this week. The turtles, 48 hatchling and four post hatchling loggerheads as well as a juvenile green turtle, were caught in the wrong current and could not survive the icy Cape waters.
The turtles were flown from Cape Town, where they spent six months recovering at the Two Oceans Aquarium.
They will spend only a few weeks in the care of uShaka Sea World staff before being taken out west of the Agulhas current and released.
Whilst they are in the rehabilitation facility they will be fed, monitored and given a final examination by resident veterinarian, Dr Francois Lampin before being released.
