May and June are the two months when sea turtles come ashore and
bury their eggs. Incubation is about two months, which means that
within four weeks, the eggs will begin hatching and the frenzy that
is the mad dash for the hatchlings to reach the deep water will begin.
One in one thousand will survive. Not great odds. When the water is
filled with oil, none will survive. This is the problem caused by the
oil spill currently entruding on the beaches of the Florida panhandle.
Because the sea turtles are endangered, experts had to take action. In
Pensacola Beach, workers will begin the painstaking job of digging up
the eggs that have been laid on the beach there. As mentioned in the
June 27th article, the eggs are buried two to three feet down. Digging
must be done by hand to prevent the eggs from cracking. The eggs will
then be transported to KSC to be stored in a temperature-controlled
warehouseuntil they hatch. When that happens, the hatchlings will be
placed on OUR beach, where they can make their mad dash to clean water.
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