{"id":421097,"date":"2026-02-12T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421097\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:53:08","slug":"why-did-a-sick-turtle-wash-up-on-a-jersey-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421097\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did a sick turtle wash-up on a Jersey beach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the New Era team had rescued a cold-stunned turtle before, it had been 10 years ago, so they received expert advice from British Divers Marine Life Rescue, Sea Life and even Rotterdam Zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jade Cranfield, senior aquarist at Weymouth Sea Life in Dorset, said the Jersey animal hospital &#8220;did a really great job&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The first thing we do [with cold-stunned turtles] is put them in a container with a foam mattress that&#8217;s got the water level coming up, just enough so it&#8217;s damp, to warm her up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Blood tests are done and X-rays are done to find out what our next steps are going to be because they&#8217;re often dehydrated as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sure enough, Crush&#8217;s core temperature started to rise but after a week at the animal hospital, she needed a bigger tank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hawarth said: &#8220;We had to put something together in a room at my house so she has been lodging with us for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was having to move 500l (110 gallons) of saltwater every two or three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was boiling seawater, tipping it in to get it to the right temperature, so she could go back into that water.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although the New Era team had rescued a cold-stunned turtle before, it had been 10 years ago, so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-421097","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\/421097","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=421097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}