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Postby Bud » Wed May 09, 2007 9:52 am

Following exchange reprinted with permission; Thanks to Joe and the Marine Turtle Research Program at the National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/psd/mtrp/)


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Joe wrote:

Bud, I noticed the picture of the satellite tagged turtle (L1) in your report from Sunday. I passed the picture on to the turtle research group at work (National Marine Fisheries Service) in case they were interested. Being the ones who tagged it they were. They are hoping you can pass on any observations about the turtle, such as how often you have seen it, its general condition, etc. Anything would be helpful.
Thanks,

Joe


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Bud wrote:

Howzit Joe;

That was taken this past Sunday about noon at the newest north shore tourist attraction (the cove on the Lanis side of Holtons paddle out).

Didn't surf Lanis as much this year & dunno how many of those guys are swimming around with the beacons, but pretty sure thats the same one I've seen 2-3 times out in the lineup near the north peak boil on a few sizable days late this season. Like most nowadays it seems healthy; I don;t recall/notice many with tumors/weird growths like I used to see so often years back.

Like most of the bigger ones, it shows little concern about being near surfers or being in the impact zone of a pitching DOH. In fact, like many of them, it seems to enjoy suddenly surfacing close enough to make you jump out of your skin.

Hope this is helpful in some way.

Bud

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Joe wrote:

Bud, thanks for the info. I passed it on to the turtle people and they are grateful. Here are some specifics on that individual turtle.

L1 is an adult male -85.3cm straight carapace length- and long time resident and basking turtle of Laniakea. His left hind flipper is half-missing due to a shark bite (the "L1" on his shell is also helpful to ID him.) He was satellite tagged with the device that is on him in the picture on 2/23/07 in the hopes that we'd track him to the NWHI to mate... but he's still here...

Thanks again,

Joe


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Bud wrote:

L1 needs to go get some lovin up north eh? :D

Glad to help, and thanks for the interesting info. Do you mind if I cut & paste this exchange and post it to the forum? I think the BB crew and lurkers would find it interesting also []

Aloha-

Bud
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Postby HMARK » Wed May 09, 2007 11:47 am

Good job supreme overlord.

Karma waves coming.

Share, eh?

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Postby fabian » Wed May 09, 2007 5:24 pm

Too bad, I was hoping that was some electronic device to drive the sharks away. Had one big bugga out Holtons last week. But waves was too good to go in. Plus everyone else stayed out too.

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Postby LGREANZ » Fri May 18, 2007 8:59 am

[url][URL=http://imageshack.us]Image[/url][/url]

this guy was cruising at Alligators.

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Postby red » Fri May 18, 2007 9:05 am

If one of them goes over the falls and smashes your skull can you name it?

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Postby Bud » Fri May 18, 2007 9:34 am

LGREANZ wrote:[url][URL=http://imageshack.us]Image[/url][/url]

this guy was cruising at Alligators.


bummer! turtle fins must a tasty snack delicacy to the tigers; that guy probably stays close to shore.

wonder if he gets dizzy? /@*@\ ooops bad joke

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Postby LGREANZ » Fri May 18, 2007 10:04 am

this guy was cruising to the right.

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flipperless stayed for the sunset

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moki boy was clueless ???


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Postby LGREANZ » Fri May 18, 2007 10:06 am

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flipperless stayed for the sunset.

a local lady named Evelyn told us that he had a tumor on the right flipper and one day a group showed up and took the him away.

a few weeks later he was back minus one appendage.

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Postby LGREANZ » Fri May 18, 2007 10:08 am

FLICKR. finally able to load photos , seesh its only been 7 years now....

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Postby Bud » Fri May 18, 2007 10:42 am

nice! ... betcha it was the fisheries turtle people who scooped him up for the operation.

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Postby HMARK » Fri May 18, 2007 12:17 pm

Wish there was some waves in that awsome shot of the sunset - when the trip to Samoa?

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Postby surfer9joe » Sat May 19, 2007 7:26 pm

lgreanz, nice pics....looked that flat today actually.

Will be paddling out haliewa 9am for Jimmy hall memorial, that guy was awesome, he loved life. The last time I saw him was out towing prefect 10 foot. He broke his rope ands stopped to chat.

Tribute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWDuMw6YwQ

awesome guy...
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Postby LGREANZ » Sun May 20, 2007 9:16 pm

impressive. he lived it balls to the wall.
wild footage ,sorry about your friend.
those sharks were huge.


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