{"id":386819,"date":"2026-01-23T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386819\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:43:09","slug":"turtle-rescued-after-washing-up-in-storm-goretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/386819\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle rescued after washing up in Storm Goretti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vet Peter Haworth said exposure to cold water in the English Channel had resulted in Crush suffering from &#8220;cold stunning&#8221;, which causes the body to shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I learned quite a lot about these creatures when we treated another Loggerhead Turtle a few years ago, and I knew that we needed to bring Crush&#8217;s temperature back up&#8221;, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s vital this is done slowly, however, and we&#8217;ve been adjusting the temperature of the water gradually over a number of days, because rapid temperature changes are dangerous and can be fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite her ordeal, Crush seems to be happily swimming around her tank, which I&#8217;m topping up with fresh seawater every day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As New Era is a 24-hour hospital, Crush is being cared for round-the-clock by our day and night teams, and we are all hoping she continues to do well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vet Peter Haworth said exposure to cold water in the English Channel had resulted in Crush suffering from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-386819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}