Fla. Firefighters Rescue 300-Pound Turtle From Pool
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June 20--The female trespasser in the pool was naked, except for her shell.
Residents at an oceanfront property on Lower Matecumbe Key awoke Sunday morning to find an unexpected guest in the pool -- a large sea turtle, apparently a loggerhead.
"She was lively, swimming around in a beautiful pool," said Lt. Glenn Taylor of Islamorada Fire Rescue, a shift leader who coordinated the rescue.
The turtle, weighing more than 300 pounds, apparently dug two nests on a nearby beach and wound up going inshore rather than back out to sea. It was a "false crawl," with no eggs laid in the nest.
Taylor and four Islamorada rescue trucks responded to the scene near mile marker 77 a little after 7 a.m.
"We only had one or two people per truck, and I didn't know how many people or what equipment we were going to need," Taylor said. "We wound up using gear from a couple of different trucks."
Firefighters used two pikes -- long poles topped with hooks -- and a tarp to fashion a makeshift net. Two department members, wearing their work clothes, waded into the pool and used the net to guide the turtle toward stairs at the pool's shallow end.
"It took some doing," Taylor said. "She was a very powerful girl who definitely had her own mind."
Six firefighters on the scene and two residents of the home helped the turtle out of the pool and put her on the right path to an oceanic return.
"She was pretty stressed out by then and took a few moments to rest," Taylor said. "Then she headed into the water. We all watched her swim away, and everybody was smiling."
Loggerhead sea turtles -- the most common species in the Keys -- tend to nest from late April to late October in the Keys, said Jo Ellen Basile, manager of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon. After nesting, they usually head back into the sea attracted by the moonlight.
"It's almost certain that if she went the wrong direction, it was because she was disoriented by the lighting" around the house, Basile said. "In this case, she probably crawled toward the lights at the pool and splash."
A manager at the Conch Key Cottages found a turtle beneath one of the units last week, Basile said. When sand blocking the turtle was removed, the female made her way back to the water. "In daylight, they go straight to the water," Basile said.
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We all watched her swim away, and everybody was smiling." Loggerhead sea turtles -- the most common species in the Keys -- tend to nest from late April to late October in the Keys, said Jo Ellen Basile, manager of the Turtle Hospital in Marathon.
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