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Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.

Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.
Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.
Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.
Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.
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Catanach, Rodney M.
Crew member hauling tangled turtle up onto Atlantis.
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03/19/2010
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R/V Atlantis Cruise AT15-60, Puntarenas, Costa Rica to Iquique, Chile.
Used in Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 1, pg. 8:
A few weeks later, off the Galapagos Islands, while the human-occupied submersible Alvin was on a mission to the seafloor, Capt. Coburn was walking on deck and spotted something yellow floating about 1,000 meters away. The floating object turned out to be an illegal fishing longline. Tangled and nearly strangled in the mess was a sea turtle. Atlantis crew members hoisted the line and turtle aboard and cut away the line to free the turtle. At right, Bosun Patrick Hennessy (left) and Ordinary Seaman Patrick Neumann get set to send the turtle off into the Pacific, where it swam away.
Photo by Rod Catanach
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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