This Sea Turtle Is Finally Tasting The Freedom Of The Ocean

This loggerhead turtle has been assisting researchers learn more about her kind for the past two years. Loggerhead turtles are marked as vulnerable on the IUCN list. In total, nine distinct population segments of the species are under the protection of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, with four population segments classified as "threatened" and 5 classified as "endangered".

After helping humans for two whole years, Luna the <a href="https://rumble.com/v3ne66-divers-swim-with-enormous-and-rare-loggerhead-sea-turtle.html" target="_blank">loggerhead turtle</a> is finally ready to set out on her own and start her new life. After a five-second countdown, surrounded by researchers and general supporters, Luna is finally let free into the ocean. And she did not hesitate for one second.

As a species threatened from extinction, researchers are making their best efforts to save the loggerhead turtles and Luna has been helping them with just that. Researchers were studying the turtle to better understand her kind and even in the ocean, Luna will continue to help the team of scientists, despite her new journey.

They equipped the turtle with a radio transmitter they attached on her shell. It will tell the scientists more about the lives of these turtles. As she grows older and her shell gets bigger, the radio transmitter will eventually fall off and Luna will finally get the private life she deserves.

This turtle is all of the kids who couldn’t wait to go to college.

The loggerhead sea turtle is the world's largest hard-shelled turtle, slightly larger at average and maximum mature weights than the green sea turtle and the <a href="https://rumble.com/v34r7e-giant-galapagos-tortoises.html" target="_blank">Galapagos tortoise</a>. It is also the world's second largest extant turtle after the leatherback sea turtle.