Posts Tagged ‘nova scotia’
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Day 9: Diving and dilly-dallying
Hello again Race fans, I’m Rowdy Gaines here with Mr. Leatherback, bringing you the Great Turtle Race! Boy do we have some major action in the Race as the week comes to a close! Backspacer is very close to the finish line but won’t cross. She just can’t seem to make up her mind about entering the Caribbean. Will her dilly-dallying cost her the Race? Will another turtle take advantage of her indecisiveness and speed past her across the finish line? ON THE MAP: Don’t forget to follow the turtles on the race map! Several turtles are spinning around the same 10-12°N latitude ... -
The Leatherback: Earth’s Last Dinosaur
I was 14 and in awe of the seafaring skills of my uncles Sal and Tony, but actually we’d ventured only a few miles into the Atlantic; you didn’t have to go far to catch Bluefin Tuna in the 1960s. I was wound with anticipation of a heavy fishing rod suddenly bending under the frightening power of a great fish. I was gazing with a child’s eyes into the infinity beneath us when suddenly a strange sea beast appeared at the surface about fifty yards off our stern. It was a creature so large the sea broke into whitecaps across ... -
From the Beginning: Nova Scotia
Many people were surprised that I wanted to try to work with leatherback turtles in Nova Scotia. In fact, most people (myself included) didn’t even know that sea turtles occurred in Canadian waters. My goal from day one was to try something no one had done before – catch and study free-swimming leatherbacks in the open ocean, and, in the process, gather information that would help recover this threatened species. Lucky for me, I found some interested fishermen with the ingenuity to help me achieve my goal. Now, 10 years later, our team – the Canadian Sea Turtle Network – has ...
