Baby Turtle release in Jamaica!

Baby Turtle release in Jamaica!

Hey guys and welcome to another video in oos well not o but we in oraba just pass oos as you can see we’re on the beach it’s in the afternoon I’m doing a tour with some friends we did dun River but you guys have seen many dun River videos but we discovered it’s

Like a turtle Sanctuary where the turtles come up they lay their eggs and what we’re going to do today is an actual Turtle release so I’m so excited to show you guys this is something unique in Jamaica total release Here oracabessa Jamaica on the beach so these are the different turtles

That come up here I guess we have C do a really Hogs beak flatback logger head green and then leather back now in Trinidad a lot of leather back it’s very popular that leather back Turtles come up in Trinidad and eggs J Beach that’s the name of the

Beach we’re on beach here is now the most popul Turtle Beach in Jamaica we get more Turtles come up here we’ve had more turtles lay since we started the project here than anywhere else I came to Jamaica in 2003 tired came here didn’t know anything about turtles where

I lived in Britain you can’t be further from the sea we’re 100 miles in any direction came here first year we were here in the June we saw this track coming up the beach we went down and lo and behold it was a turtle track but the

Guy that was looking after the house next door was digging up the eggs to sell them because they believed that mixed in a punch it’s like a Viagra which is pot of rubbish it’s not but they believe it and so the eggs were being dug up to disol that season we

Lost eight mother turtles that got killed every turtle that came out they killed and every Nest that was laid was stolen decided we buy a flashlight instead we stood at this end of the beach a whole Beach up and they all just ran away and that season we didn’t lose

A single turtle and since then on the beach we haven’t lost any the next year we discovered that the turtle dug BL we’ had some heavy rain we thought oh this Nest is going to hatch and we’ read the books and it said 60 days 60 days came

70 days came it didn’t hatch the water had gone into the nest drown the turtles they were all gone so we suddenly realized you couldn’t leave the nest in certain places if there was water cuz that would kill so each year we’ve improved this season alone we’ve had 293

Incidents that’s Turtles coming off some laid 186 nests and 106 didn’t on that trip in we’ve had a lot of new t this year that come up first time they’ve ever tried to lay they wander around don’t know what to do go back come up the next night try it again then might

On the third night so that’s a much higher number than we’d normally guess but we’ve already released 6,600 we’ve still got 20 Nest left and we’ll probably hit about 19,000 but that is less than last year because Turtles don’t lay every year they lay every two three or four years so because you’ve

Got those Cycles you get a really good year fabulous year and then it dips last year we had some like 24,000 Turtles and we had 3 uh 335 nests but since we’ve started our grand total now is 22,43 so about 3 weeks ago we crossed the quarter of the million Mark we also

Train lots of the other beaches so we don’t only do what we do here we hope other people get started Etc we’re then going to go over there and there’ll be a make a big circle around the nest you’ll open up the nest take a few Turtles out

One of my guys will wash it going a wash one looks like and then when we take them all out you’re going to wash them you take them and you’re going to hold them with your finger and thumb and you’re going to put them into the sea

Wash them take them out once do it again second time third time you’re going to check the eyes are open and you’re going to look at their belly button to make sure it’s healed properly what that means is that every turtle that goes back is in Prime condition sometimes

When nests go out especially at this time of the year when it’s hotter at the top than the bottom the bottom ones have’t hatch properly and so we’re letting them go you know we used to let them go before they were ready but now every single one will go out and it’ll

Be perfect then we take them back in the bucket to the end of the beach we tip the bucket open the reason we take them to the back of the beach is so that they can exercise to get into the sea they also set their GPS because the turtles

Come back here to breathe and as we let them out they’re setting their little GPS reading the magnetic forces of the earth and it’s the same system that Salon Ed to actually go back to the same river Birds go back to the same place to breede once we’ve done that they’ve gone

At the end I’m going to gather you back around and tell you where they go and what happens to them okay so don’t disappear off once she in the turtles all right cuz I’ve got another couple minutes and boring you the other thing you need to know is they are sexed by

Temperature so when we let the nest go in the summer all the all the hatchlings are female but we’ve been doing a project with tus University in Boston and we’ve now got 35 loggers on the beach and we’ve had some really surprising results cuz we thought you

Know you get to October November time it’s still hot enough to be female and actually it isn’t we found that we’re going to get more males than we expect because of the temperatures that we’ve discovered on the beach but there are also place on the beach that are quite

Cold compared to other spots on the beach because we’ve got 100t Cliffs behind and that creates a shadow and so now that we start to get a heat map of the beach we start to understand where Nest will be more male or more female at different points in the Earth really

Good information from Mel who runs the show so now we’re going to get the turtles you excited son yeah it’s magical magical see the mesh that’s there that’s because we have on the beach and the would dig in and eat them when they smell them hatch okay

So we take that away and here’s our first baby sea turtle okay so they’re going to wave at you and smile going to take it wash it and this is what will happen this is how they get out of the nest so many come on little guys come on out Open Your

Eyes Open Your Eyes what kind of turtles are these These are Haw build these are the only critically endangered sea turtle now all the others are endangered or at risk but these are critical come on you so if you look at the ones that are covered in sand and

Then you look at the washed one if it look like the end of my finger bring it to one of us and we’ll say whether it’s right right or not if it isn’t we put them in our incubator cook them if you hold and you touch the end of the nose

They’ve got a little sharp point and when they’re in the egg and they move that’s what gets them out the egg without that they can’t escape okay and then the first thing you’ll see when you see them hatches that nose will come through then the flippers so we always

Get asked how do you know we’ve got them all once we start to move the shells out you can’t go deeper than that so once we’ve got shells we’re fine so the shells are flexible they’re rubbery and basically they’re the size of a table tennis or a ping pong ball depending

Whether you come from America or Europe but basically this is what the turtle grew in go find the guy with the blue shirt so you saw them they up the nest now we’re going to wash and release what we’re going to do is wash this is how you hold them finger and

Thumb side of the shell between the flippers you’re going to walk in the water wash it once twice three times we do this to make sure the eyes are open and to make sure this areir is he this is where they were attached to the egg

Sack once it’s nice and flat it’s healed after we have washed all the turtles then we count them then we release them any questions all right so you guys can just reach in pick it up the way I’m holding this one finger and thumb you want to take this one

Again sun is washing the turtle does the na look healed um yes it does it does yeah so this is the turtles son have and he washed what do you think sir it’s amazing what what you nameing him um I don’t know didn’t think so far I you name him [Applause]

What sorry you got yours yeah so cute you got yours nice yes I can keep this will be you can always clean it this is the unwashed and the washed one too long all right go and and put them in the clean bucket all right I think that should be

Enough these all look good to go they look healed so son has the turtle and we’re going to put it in the Clean Water the clean bucket verified here is good and we putting him in the clean bucket uh check that one here show him you

Going to do our next one he he said it real so this is everybody in the beach taking part washing the turtles before we let them go amazing amazing experience son is doing another one this guy this guy right most of them has been washed and they’re now being counted as you

Know from the talk they keep a very accurate count of the amount they let go and whatnot so this is a very important part 137 so the count is in it’s 137 you said but one when I asked how got to go back okay next wave will R them then you’ll

See them swim out and you’ll see the little heads pop up and down okay yeah that’s it let it just touch the ground and then just leave it for them to come out oh my go that’s it lovely they’ll start to orientate towards the sea once they start to move the

SE this is amazing guys are losing we haveo they oh that guy isasa you see Bolt no get a big way get and and been yeah somebody take it oh there they go By yeah the yeah look some guys way out yeah actually swim pretty fast right look go back flipping so are you seeing the turtles there they’re heading in they’re getting flipped over by the water but they are swimming and I’m not sure the video picks it up but you’ve seen the little

Heads bobbing as they swim up it is just amazing most of them look like they’re in the water already there is just some here meing heading right behind us wait you are cheating y he’s ching this one should take him yeah oh man oh H JY he’s back come man

He get mixed up a little bit and then we H out yeah Maybe a little too much you see he’s his tux his arms in right and then Glides how’s he know that already buddy yeah I think that’s it wow came up the breed and then he goes again just amazing you know wash the turtles count and as you saw we released

Them we’re going to head back to L so he’ll give us a little more information about what happens to them now that they’re back in the ocean after hatching come on I get through the first part and they get used to swimming they call it the swim frenzy and they’re

Trying to avoid any big fish that are going to eat them the reason we do it at this time and not at night is because the big fish aren’t here now the bay gets hot and the big fish go to cool the deeper water so by and large we don’t

Have any big fish that could eat them in the bay like today they’ve gone out nothing gets eaten at night between here and the Sea we lose 30 to 40% in the sea you can lose another 40 to 50% so on a bad day only 10 out of 100 will make it

To the Horizon whereas probably of the 137 we left out probably 135 will make it so this is why we time it to be here and because you’re here the be the crabs the birds the mongus won’t come out to eat them because you’re here y so therefore you’ve helped save probably

About 50 plus Turtles today just by being here within 6 to 8 weeks they go between the Yucatan and Cuba now if they’re on the Cuban side the current takes them round Cuba up the east coast of Florida and they get picked up by the current that takes them across the

Atlantic they end up in the summer in Portugal Spain North Africa and when the current moves in the winter months they end up in West Africa then they feed up come all the way back down to the other end of the Caribbean Up the South American Coast back to around here

10,000 Mi takes five years when they come back they’re about this big but they can swim against the current so then they don’t leave the Caribbean if they’re on the western side they go into the Gulf Louisiana Texas Mexico back around the Yucatan Central America when they get to Venezuela they the current

Brings them back here 4,000 mil takes 2 years and they’re that sort of size again too big for the fish to eat so that’s their cycle that they do all right but because they set their GPS this is the only place they will come to

Breed in the future can I thank you very much for coming hope you enjoyed it and hopefully see you again we wrapped it up it was an amazing amazing experience we spoke about like in June July that’s when they come up to L so I plan to come

Back at that point in time but this was really good the numbers are up on the screen so in case anybody wants to do the experience we can contact Mel directly uh he’ll inform you it didn’t take long all right within an hour hour and a half it’s done all right so it’s

Definitely worth it if you guys are in the area this is oraba a little after oi we should come and do it Mel is doing some really good work they started this what 13 years ago or something these guys are Now official game wardens so it

Is now illegal to harm the eggs you could end up in jail so they’ve done a good job and it’s been over 10 years since they’ve had any kind of turtle loss amazing results so anyway guys thanks so much for watching I really appreciate you guys watching my videos

Remember to like subscribe and I’ll see you guys L bye we don’t care get big and yeah take it oh there they go byee

We had a great experience as we had a Baby Turtle release in Jamaica! We found the Oracabessa Bay Sea Turtle Project that works to conserve and protect the turtles that come on Gibraltar beach in Oracabessa.

Melvyn Tennant or “Mel” as he is more commonly known, is a retired British Teacher and he has been running a sea turtle program where he protects seas turtles as they come in to lay eggs, manages the nests and then releases the hatched baby turtles.

We had a great time learning about the turtles and actually washed, counted and then released then back into the ocean. it was a great experience and I encourage everyone to try and do it if they can.

Contact info for Turtle experience:
Oracabessa Bay Sea Turtle Project
Phone: 1876-880-0069
Email: melvyn_tennant@yahoo.com
Instagram: oracabessabayseaturtles

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