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Measuring a Dead Turtle

Picture by: NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Region Picture taken on: June 28th, 2010

Tags: turtle deepwater southeast pacific

T. Todd Jones measuring a dead severely decomposed juvenile Kemp's ridley that was found washed ashore along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi during the Deepwater Horizon response in 2010. During the response, NOAA sent staff from every region to help out. Jones is from Hawaii.