Arbatax: Tarturo, a small specimen of Caretta caretta, returns to the sea after months of treatment

Tarturo resumed the sea route. A small 5-year-old specimen of Caretta caretta turtle was released this morning on the beach of Capannina, in Arbatax . He was trapped in a nylon sack.

A Milanese tourist had found him on 8 August while he was swimming in difficulty in the waters of the marina of Tertenia, in the locality of Barisoni. Without thinking too much, he had immediately recovered it and saved it from certain death by alerting the agents of the Naval Base of the Arbatax Forestry Corps. The filaments of the sac had caused deep injuries to the fins and neck.

The seriously injured turtle had been entrusted by the Arbatax Blon team as per protocol to the care of the Cres del Sinis recovery center. Tarturo, as he was renamed by Arturo, the tourist who found him, stayed at the veterinary clinic for three months.

The completely healed specimen was released this morning in the presence of numerous children from the nursery and primary school of Tortolì. For them the biologists have given an environmental education lesson in the spaces of the Fishermen's Cooperative. In the presence of the young students, a delegation of municipal administration and many onlookers, Tarturo returned to his sea accompanied by a loud applause.