THAILAND: THAI NAVY SAVES A HEAVILY WOUNDED SEA TURTLE TOSSED TWO KILOMETERS INLAND BY TSUNAMI WAVES

Record ID: 646788

  • Title: THAILAND: THAI NAVY SAVES A HEAVILY WOUNDED SEA TURTLE TOSSED TWO KILOMETERS INLAND BY TSUNAMI WAVES
  • Date: 13th January 2005
  • Summary: (W4) PHANG NGA PROVINCE, THAILAND (JANUARY 13, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV NAVAL OFFICERS PULLING OUT NETS FROM TRUCK 0.09 2. CU TURTLE IN POND SWIMMING 0.16 3. LV/CU/SV OF NAVY OFFICERS SPREADING NET ACROSS POND (5 SHOTS) 0.34 4. SV TURTLE BEING CARRIED OUT BY OFFICERS 0.40 5. SV BIOLOGIST TURNS TURTLE ON BACKSIDE TO CHECK TURTLE 0.50 6. MCU (Thai) CAPTAIN VIANI KLONINN, SAYING: "We continue to search for turtles, there are reports there are more turtles trapped on land in ponds on the base." 1.00 7. CU MARINE BIOLOGIST ADMINISTERING FIRST AID 1.05 8. CU MARINE BIOLOGIST PLACES ANTI SEPTIC ON GASH (2 SHOTS) 1.14 9. CU TURTLE'S FACE 1.17 10. CU BIOLOGISTS TREATING THE TURTLE'S GASH 1.24 11. SV/CU BIOLOGISTS PUTTING RESIN IN GASH, ADMINISTERING ANTIBIOTIC (2 SHOTS) 1.32 12. CU/SV BIOLOGISTS INJECTING THE TURTLE WITH ANTIBIOTIC (4 SHOTS) 1.48 13. MCU (English) MARINE BIOLOGIST KONGKIAT KITTIWATTANAWONG, SAYING: "Normally male turtles don't have any experience on the shore, except when they birth (are born), when they hatch out and they run to the sea. Most of the sea, many sea turtles that got injured they got hit by logs and trees and other building like concrete or something so that's why we can see the broken of the body." 2.12 14. CU BIOLOGIST CLEANING WOUNDED SITE 2.16 15. MCU (English) KITTIWATTANAWONG, SAYING: "I feel sad that this sea turtle come to the shore and some of them already hurt because we have already low number of sea turtle population in Thailand so we try to rescue them as much as possible. So since the beginning of the tsunami we tried to search for these animals and help them being released back to the sea." 2.38 16. CU TURTLE BEING CARRIED INTO VEHICLE 2.50 17. SLV TRUCK DRIVING AWAY 2.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: PHANG NGA PROVINCE, THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVA3LQ4FF7RPM7V5YR685JWXZIGI
  • Story Text: Thai navy saves a heavily wounded sea turtle tossed
    two kilometres inland by tsunami waves.




    Thai naval officers and marine biologists at Thap
    Lamu Naval Base carried out a rescue operation on Thursday
    (January 13, 2005) to save a wounded Green sea turtle trapped in
    a pond inside their base, after the tsunami waves pushed
    the turtle two kilometres overland.

    Forty Thai naval officers used hundred metre nets to
    catch the 20 year old turtle, which weighed 140 kilograms.

    The turtle, said marine biologist Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong
    of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre, suffered a severe
    gash to its shell, most likely from striking logs, cement
    and other debris from the wreckage caused by the huge wave.

    Kittiwattanawong administered first aid to the turtle
    filling a severe gash in its shell with resins and said the
    turtle would not be able to return to the sea until it was
    monitored for infection. It would take a month for recovery
    and he will then be fitted with radar, he said, before
    being released.

    Naval officers said there were more turtles that had
    been scattered across the coast and tossed inland that
    would have to be treated for wounds or returned to the sea.

    So far the Thai Navy has rescued 30 displaced turtles
    that had to be returned to the sea.


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