QUINCY, Mass. - Joedee Foster (left), a volunteer with the New England Aquarium, holds an endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle as Julika Wocial, from the New York Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, examines him while preparing him to be transported from the Animal Care Center in Quincy, Mass., to Hanscom Air Force Base in Lincoln, Mass., Sun. Dec. 12, 2010. Twenty sea turtles were prepared and taken to the air base where they were loaded onto a Mobile, Ala.-based Coast Guard HC-144A Ocean Sentry for a trip to Orlando, Fla., where they will continue rehabilitation at Sea World before being potentially released back into the wild. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Connie Terrell.
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