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the first group of hatchlings from

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endangered sea turtle eggs brought from

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beaches along the northern u.s gulf

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coast was released into the atlantic

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ocean off nasa's kennedy space center in

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florida on july 11th 22 kemp's ridley

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turtles were set free on a kennedy space

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center canaveral national seashore beach

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the release and relocation work is part

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of an effort by the u.s fish and

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wildlife service the florida fish and

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wildlife conservation commission the

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national park service noaa and

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conservationists to help minimize the

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risk to this year's sea turtle

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hatchlings from the impact of the bp

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deep water horizon oil spill in the gulf

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of mexico this plan involves carefully

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moving an anticipated 700 nests

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deposited on florida panhandle and

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alabama beaches during the next several

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months

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once collected the kemp's ridley nest

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from walton county florida was

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individually packed in a styrofoam box

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with sand and transported by a specially

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equipped truck to a secure climate

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control facility at kennedy where it was

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monitored until incubation was complete

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the merritt island national wildlife

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refuge is located inside kennedy

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the video includes interior of the

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uh

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to see how it's kind of getting that

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star shape we're doing even more now

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so this one's different than that we're

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going to do so and we would expect the

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temperature in here to be a little bit

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harder because they're wrestling around

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okay

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and then we just hope that all these

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probes work it's getting warmer do you

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are they going to continue during the

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day they might

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they should be moving kind of like off

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and on all the time

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so if i'm getting 27 one what did i have

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there's no way that these turtles are

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going to get out they're too small and

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they're too deep in the box so we don't

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need to do this but typically we will do

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it for the uh when the loggerheads come

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they're probably gonna have sand up to

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here okay and once they get in there and

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they start walking on each other they

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may be able to

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you know get a huge bunch of them come

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at the same time they'll be crawling and

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over the top so that's when we have to

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do that i was doing it to kind of have

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it as the thing we normally would do

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okay

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so you see uh

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midas and then dermal calories coriaceae

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this is the um leatherback

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green

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kemp's loggerhead okay

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and and so we'll get a few of these

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very few of these very few of these and

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tons of those okay

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okay okay tonight we'll take the um

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hatchlings and put them in here we'll

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reduce the amount of sand because it's

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too heavy okay we'll put them in here

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and we'll take them to the beach in this

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okay

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the live ones yes so they're in it and

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actually this morning they came up this

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morning like all of a sudden for some

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reason they came up during the day we

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can't have them wandering around and uh

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expending all their energy

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so we're going to put them in here

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right this minute we would put them in

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here we would cover it and we would make

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it dark and they would go back to sleep

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here also help me

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right here okay yeah so we would

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anticipate 25 in here and i think

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there's 39 in there

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that's so amazing there's some 39.

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they're very tiny

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yeah so

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nobody in here wants to think about

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circuit but that's very very positive

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everybody's

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looking forward to this one making it so

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this is the very first gulf coast nest

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from the oil deep horizon oil spill and

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the sign that that these animals are

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starting to pip and come and prepare to

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emerge over the next two days is

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very big very big good news

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this means they survive the excavation

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process they survived the trip across

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the state of florida they made it into

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our facility and they are

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doing what they normally would do and

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this is this is just great

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good stuff

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yeah should be able to pick it up

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before is it flimsy in the middle or is

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size-wise

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really dark

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yeah they are mm-hmm come on

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so he's got good good rigor see that i

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mean he's getting that thing going on

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yeah it would have been

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this guy's a little concave

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but um yeah it would be coming right

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through here it closes up and now it's

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in here if you were to open it up there

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would be an oh

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yeah i think i think we should give this

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a shot

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because

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yeah

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those just came up today all right so

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we're in those up today when you um um

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it gives you pushback you know

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hanging out sometimes you'll see a

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little bit of

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material hanging out

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but you're still talking

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i probably would you know if it's kind

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of still

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not moving very much and so the next few

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wow that was a lot 22 or 17.

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all right

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that's who's going with us tonight

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and we'll get the i'll get the data

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sheet going if you want to walk that

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over somewhere where you can maybe put

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it on the other table

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on the way out or at the end of this

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table

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okay

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them

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okay all right we're on our way okay

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can you sing

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um

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was that the entire dark

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oh no there's more they're just not

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ready yet

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so what do you think john

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they look a little logger heady don't

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they yeah they do yeah

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see how dark black they are

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okay guys let's go

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oh is that right it's good because we're

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come on

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there they go

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so the tide coming in

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yes

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we need to wash for about 10 minutes and

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make sure everybody's

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yay