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Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:37 AM Sep 2012

For this sea turtle, love is a research project



By Mary Landers
Theirs was a tale of love at sea not meant to be.

Skidaway Institute researchers discovered the pair on Valentine’s Day at the edge of the continental shelf off Myrtle Beach. He was a loggerhead sea turtle. She was an underwater robot.


“We first spotted something from a quarter mile or farther away,” said Skidaway’s Catherine Edwards, who approached with other researchers on the R.V. Savannah. “You’re supposed to just see yellow at the surface.”

Instead there was also a four-foot-long dark spot.

“It had been messing with the glider for some time,” Edwards said. “(The glider) wasn’t going where it was supposed to. It was responding sluggishly to scientist’s directions.”

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