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Related: About this forumThe Latest: Turtle swims away with oceanographers ashes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/the-latest-turtle-swims-away-with-oceanographers-ashes/2017/09/30/60e8af24-a644-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_story.html?utm_term=.10b9af994240PORT ARANSAS, Texas The Latest on a sea turtle carrying an oceanographers ashes to sea (all times local):
8 p.m.
A rescued green sea turtle named Picasso has been released back into the Gulf of Mexico, carrying the ashes of a self-taught Texas oceanographer who founded the rehabilitation center that nursed it back to health.
Hundreds attended the Saturday night ceremony in Port Aransas, on a stretch of beached named in honor of Tony Amos.
Amos wife, son and other relatives sprinkled ashes on the turtles shell, then watched it crawl and flap slowly into the waves.
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Tony was a friend and colleague.
He initiated a long term study quantifying anthropogenic flotsam (beach trash) on Port A beaches and most every day would take surveyor tape measure down to the beach to collect his data.
He was an Old Antarctic Explorer and participated in several Antarctic research expeditions - he even brought me back crabeater seal "poo" (his term for it) - so I could I could use it for my research.
He did lots of "good work" for the environment and this would be the way he wanted to be returned to the ocean he loved.
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The Latest: Turtle swims away with oceanographers ashes (Original Post)
jpak
Oct 2017
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The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)1. That's a story for Aesop's Fables.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)2. Very moving story!
Perfect way for this caring man to be reunited with the sea.
R.I.P, good sir!
K&R
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Beautiful and so befitting!!! n/t