This clip is of several endangered Green Sea Turtles that we snorkeled with off of the Olowalu coast this weekend in Maui. These guys are docile and very used to human with weird masks and fins swimming around them all day. One turtle had several bulbous white growths on his fins and eye lids, he looked quite pitiful and as it turns out the growths are tumors caused by the virus fibropapilloma. Here is a good, quick synopsis of the life of a sea turtle and the problems they are facing.
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