Try saying that Title four times quickly... This episode we get an emergency call about a critically endangered Hawksbill turtle who was caught on a fishing ...

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this episode of chuffed Adventures we

help return a critically endangered sea

turtle back into the wild and continue

tackling the dinghy project

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so it's 6:30 in the morning we got a

call outside about a turtle who has a

fishhook stuck in her mouth and the

nearest turtle hospital is about eight

hours away so the biologists are hoping

we might be able to get it out and she

can be released right away which would

be really nice so head in there this

morning should be fun I'm hoping we can

get it out with relative ease but we'll

see we packed up our surgical and

medical supplies and awaited the arrival

of our friends Phoebe and Pippy

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Playa Blanca is located at the top end

of the OSA Peninsula and it took us

around 20 minutes to arrive at Pepe's

speedy little boat Playa Blanca is only

a tiny village with around 500 residents

but it attracts tourists year-round with

amazing ecotourism opportunities it is

also the location of a latin-american

sea turtles group that does research and

rescues on sea turtles in the OSA

Peninsula you don't think so

yeah - - for the jacket we are ten what

just wait for breath one of the attorney

I'm with Hammond was working the were

there as well so they saw the turtle

being cut so they call me out right away

as they need the family caught turtle

I'm just gonna do one like a stick in

there yeah we have poly path yeah it

might just go to the muscle with stepped

away

it's so much easier to get hooked in and

then get out the fishhook had become

embedded in the wall of the esophagus

around seven centimeters down the throat

which allowed us to visualize and grab

the hook bones that run here mm-hmm just

is really questionnaires

and I'm feeling this it turns out there

was actually two hooks lodged in there

and although it was a tight work space

we needed many hands to help this little

Hawksbill was under anesthesia but

without gas anaesthetic to make sure it

was maintained properly we didn't want

any unexpected surprises like lost

fingers I manipulated the hook to work

out where to make my incision from the

outside of the neck to the inside I was

trying to incise over the barbed of the

hook so it could be removed which

reduces the internal trauma compared to

simply trying to pull the hook back out

so now I just need to try and get the

bar that's the hunter and its flashing

red which means it's just recording yeah

thanks please of course there's another

one in there I think but once I have

this quiet it is that the barbed side

you couldn't

might be able to stick

one breathe scale even better huh

I met a girl the other day he's got a

she's an artisan she's got a tattoo on

the inside of her finger that's and just

it's 2 inches it's like a little ruler

on her finger always using it good

things for scaling she's like I always

forget my ruler or it just I've always

got this you can see the size of the

hook mm-hmm yeah that one's got rust on

it and looks like there's a bit of

infection kind of around it make sure

I've got ahold of it yet actually my

team you got to pull that one because

it's got my BOB Joey you might find you

can actually just pull it and I just let

that that was my girl the hooks were

around 5 centimeters long and deeply

embedded in the muscle of this turtle's

neck I first had to suture close the

esophagus then the muscle and finally

the skin

is using absorbable suture material so

should be released really quickly

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administered antibiotics pain relief and

anti-inflammatory injections which would

be repeated the next afternoon to help

her on the road to recovery she was also

quite dehydrated so he administered

fluid solution with added glucose for

energy into the selamat otherwise known

as the abdominal cavity of turtles while

that was kicking in and her anesthetic

was wearing off John had a quick game of

footy with our youngest volunteer the

Hawksbill turtle is critically

endangered so every single one we can

help and return to the wild makes a huge

difference to the population this little

turtle is only a juvenile and has many

years ahead we placed her or him into

the recovery tank with a small amount of

water while the general anesthetic wore

off this little guy will be returned to

the wild in two days after the

latin-american sea turtle team ensures

that he's swimming well in the tank and

is recovered fully we then went out to

celebrate a successful day and ended up

eating lunch with a crazy and a soccer

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interrupted breakfast it was then time

to return to chuffed and the dingy

project stay tuned until the end of the

episode to see the beautiful release

Joel was finishing up the sanding on the

inside of the dinghy and I was also

learning the de building was frequently

interrupted with coffee breaks and chats

with everyone who passed by the dinghy

was literally stopping people on the

streets to come have a look at it

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tapes in

yeah I tried to tape probably that long

he said you grab a little thread and

pull it and I said of fine to it to make

you a straight line

yeah

take money little strands

pull it out so you have a salon and then

you can cut along the lon

it's great idea that's what that's

what's called tape for to line yeah

that's like a hypoxic let me get some

clothes

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we filled the seams with epoxy to remove

any air bubbles before laying down the

strips of fiberglass doctors tape

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we use two different batches of the same

brand of hardener and somehow ended up

with one setting better than the other

but eventually they both hardened up and

Joel was at the Itchy work of sanding

once again

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and now we'd like you all to sit back

and enjoy this absolutely amazing moment

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thanks for watching and supporting our

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the website next episode we take a break

and sail up the OSA Peninsula where we

explore beautiful beaches and have a

sick little pony give us a run for our

money until next time stay chaf to

everybody