02-02-2018 15:30 via theverge.com

Here’s why this man has two turtles strapped to his kayak

At the beginning of January, wildlife biologist Allen Foley had a problem: the water was so cold that green sea turtles in St. Joseph Bay in Northwestern Florida were stunned. They’d stopped moving, putting them at risk for dying. So he did the only thing he could do: he began picking the cold turtles up, by foot and by kayak.Green sea turtles don’t do well when the ocean water drops below 50 degrees Fahrenheit: the reptiles stop moving, float to the surface, and eventually wash up
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