{"id":4525,"date":"2000-11-24T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2000-11-24T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2010-03-02T17:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T22:04:57","slug":"deep-freeze-%e2%80%94-24-november-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"Deep Freeze \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 24 November 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4527\" title=\"11-24a-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"11-24a-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-1-480-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Three Frozen Kemp&#8217;s Ridley Sea Turtles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The Sanctuary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery room transformed into a morgue as frigid conditions grip Cape Cod Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 Three frozen Kemp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridley sea turtles lay in a row.\u00c2\u00a0 Two had washed ashore on Truro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bayside beaches; the third was discovered in Orleans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Rock Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 All dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4528\" title=\"11-24a-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-2.jpg\" alt=\"11-24a-2\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-2-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Kemp&#8217;s Ridley with 32.7 Degree Internal Body Temperature<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A fourth ridley was found by beach walkers as she came in with the tide at Linnell Landing in Brewster this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 With an internal body temperature of 32.7 degrees, there was little hope.\u00c2\u00a0 While her skin still seemed fresh to the touch, there was no observable reaction to stimuli, and her lungs seemed filled with water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-3-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4529\" title=\"11-24a-3 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-3-480.jpg\" alt=\"11-24a-3 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-3-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/11\/11-24a-3-480-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Fifteen Cold-Stunned Kemp&#8217;s Ridley Sea Turtles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Our informal running tally shows 15 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153LK\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Kemp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridleys) sea turtles recovered since 1 November, one of which (ST-00-21) may have been a leftover from last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strandings.\u00c2\u00a0 And with air temperature dropping into the low 20s, wind chill in the single digits, and water temperature recorded yesterday at 2.5 Celsius, there remains little but hope and prayer for a miracle to save any ridleys still lingering in the bay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Conditions are ripe, though, for the first loggerheads \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with their greater body mass and tank-like resilience &#8212; to make an appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Frozen Kemp&#8217;s Ridley Sea Turtles The Sanctuary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery room transformed into a morgue as frigid conditions grip Cape Cod Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 Three frozen Kemp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridley sea turtles lay in a row.\u00c2\u00a0 Two had washed ashore on Truro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bayside beaches; the third was discovered in Orleans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Rock Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 All dead on arrival. 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