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Satellite Telemetry

Tracking NOW

Update Oct 26, 2019
Currently there are 4 sea turtles that were tagged in Belize that are still sending signals.  One turtle forages off the coast of Nicaragua, one is between Mexico and Cub, and two are foraging in southern Belize. 

Tracking sea turtles would make a great school project, and seaturtle.org has a webpage specifically for teachers so they can introduce sea turtle migration into the classroom.  

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Special thanks to SEATURTLE.ORG for making it possible to easily track sea turtles and Dr Todd Rimkus, Marymount University and Hawkbill Hope for supplying satellite tags!
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Click on the name of the turtle to  be redirected to the link at seaturtle.org
Maje Hope for GPWS                                              Deploy Date: July 4, 2018
​MAJE Hope for GPWS, a nesting hawksbill found at Gales Point, Belize was tagged on July 4, 2018 in Marymount University's & Hawksbill Hope's satellite tagging program.  Maje is the 12th turtle tagged by Marymount University with Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary. She was secured after she finished nesting and fitted with a SPOT 6 tag from Wildlife Computers.

Maje forages in southern Belize in the Victoria Channel and the Port Honduras Marine Reserve.

Oasis of Hope                                                          Deploy Date: June 10, 2019

On November 29, 2018 Wildtracks received a report of an injured loggerhead sea turtle trapped inside a coastal fish trap.  She had a large puncture wound in her neck and scratches on her head and carapace.  Wildtrack rehabilitates injured manatees and stranded calves and so they took in their first loggerhead and nursed her back to health.

By June her neck wound had healed and with assistance from SACD they transported the turtle to Hol Chan Marine Reserve to release her in the Caribbean Sea.

Wildltracks gave her the name Oasis of Hope after the Oasis Resort that funded the fresh food needed to support the turtle for more than 6 months.

Oasis of Hope followed in the path of Hope for Freya, another stranded sea turtle that was attacked by a shark in 2015.

In September 2019 Oasis started migrating over the Yucatan Shelf and currently heading southward but this could change.  Stay tuned for further updates on her travels!
Oasis of Hope - Last position November 8, 2019
4 -3 - 2 - 1 - 0 - A - B - C The legend shows the accuracy of the points, with 4 being the most accurate and C the least. Most of the points from Oasis are "B" and yellow, while the more accurate points are the blue or green ones.

Repeat                                                                        Deploy Date: July 10, 2019

Repeat received her name because she had already been tagged with a PIT tag by Dr Rimkus in a previous trip to Gales Point.  Repeat has followed in the paths of many hawksbills tagged at Gales Point that travel down the Victoria Channel to Port Honduras Marine Reserve.

 Chelle's                                                                   Deploy Date: JUL 26, 2019

sChelle's was found by Moses, a resident of Gales Point and tagged under the Hawksbill Research Institute, a new organisation formed by Dr Rimkus to help raise awareness on hawksbill sea turtle conservation.

Chelle's has take the same path as Sea Grape, a hawksbill tagged and released at Gales Point in 2017, but Chelle's foraging area is a little further south into the territorial waters of Nicaragua, where fishermen still hunt sea turtles.

We hope Chelle's safely navigates the Nicaraguan coast and moves on to safer seas.
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