Deepest Diving Sea Turtle

Deepest Diving Sea Turtle - February 2, 2009, at 4 am, turtles are known as Tika off the coast of Gabon, West Africa. She spent almost six months sailing across the Atlantic, 5000 miles (8.000 km) journey to the shores of South America. At the moment it is probably somewhere in Brazil, there are jellyfish and building himself up. Around March next year, it will begin its journey back to Africa, and if all goes well, it will then build a nest and lay her eggs in the sand Mayumba national park in Gabon. And this is just one of many trips around 10000 miles it is doing in its 50-year life.

Scientists know all this because for the first time, they traced the journeys taken by the leatherback turtles as they cross the Atlantic ocean, with teak travel far from the 25 women who followed in the studies lasted more than five years. She, along with another woman called Regab, appeared in the waters of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Others stayed closer to Africa, but still continued their journey for several months, and they sailed thousands of miles. One of them, named Carolina researchers, swam in the middle of the Atlantic more than a year and a half to disperse more than 7000 miles before returning to breed.