Thirty sea turtle patients were bathed, weighed and wrapped in towels then handed over to volunteers who sang to them, patted them and generally did whatever it took to keep them calm. When their number came up they were out the door and into the tent where they were measured, tagged, had blood drawn and were given their final exam. All of this with the help from students of a graduate class from UNC-G, Wendy Cluse and Matthew Godfrey from NC Wildlife Resources Commission and Dr. Craig Harms with his assistants.

BBC-1’s, The One Show, does live television to the UK. After she was literally blown across the Atlantic, this small Kemp’s Ridley stranded at Woolacombe Bay in the UK on January 6, 2007. She was less than 3 kg., battered and beaten to the point where the staff at Sea Life Park couldn’t even identify the species of sea turtle they found under their care. Long story short, after six months of treatment Willy was finally well enough to move into their shark nursery tank, where she grew and grew, longing for a way back to the U.S.