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Turtle Rescues

The Adventures of Torres

Staff and volunteers of Reef HQ Aquarium along with the Townsville community said goodbye and good luck to our beloved Torres. The green turtle was released off The Strand in Townsville on Friday 23 July and has embarked on a new life in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park after being nursed back to health at Reef HQ Aquarium's Turtle Hospital. 

Torres was brought to Reef HQ Aquarium in 2006 weighing a tiny 366 grams.After four years of rehabilitation, Torres was a healthy 45 kilograms and fit for release. Torres grew faster and larger than green turtles of a similar age due to the optimal conditions provided at the Aquarium.

A regular star of the Dive Show, Torres touched our hearts with its larger than life personality and repertoire of cheeky antics. Thanks to some impressive technology and the assistance of Dr Mark Hamman, Principal Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer with James Cook University, Torres has three different tracking devised glued onto its carapace, so that researchers and the public can follow Torres' movements.

Track Torres' movements via the www.seaturtle.org website.

Adventures of Torres is a project of James Cook University in conjunction with partners and sponsors listed below:

  • Reef HQ Aquarium

  • Queensland Department of Environmental Resource Management

  • Sea Turtle Foundation 

If you have questions or would like to request the use of maps or data for this project please contact mark.hamann@jcu.edu.au.



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