Bev recovered from her illness much more quickly than expected so we were able to release her this fall as the water in the Gulf of Mexico (where Bev came from) stayed warm enough for her to be released safely. We rushed to get her transmitter and luckily our colleague Mark Dodd from GA DNR had everything on hand that we needed to apply it to Bev’s carapace. Bev’s satellite transmitter was applied at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Sunday, November 18 and she was driven to a beach on the Florida panhandle, west of Panama City Beach on Monday morning (see next post). The photos below show the transmitter being attached, a flipper tag being attached (she also received a PIT tag) and Bev swimming in her rehab tank sporting her new hardware.
