Endangered sea turtles get a ride home from the Coast Guard
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QUINCY, Mass. -- Caroline Weber, a New England Aquarium volunteer, puts petroleum jelly on the shell of an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle to prepare him for transport from Massachusetts to Florida while at the Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass., Sun. Dec. 12, 2010. Twenty sea turtles that were rescued within the past six weeks around Cape Cod, Mass., were flown from Hanscom Air Force Base in Lincoln, Mass., to Orlando, Fla., by a Mobile, Ala.-based Coast Guard HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircrew were they will continue to be rehabilitated by Sea World before being potentially released back into the wild. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell.
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