Leatherback

Hetland · Jul 2, 2008

saw a huge leatherback turtle yesterday about 1.5 miles south of perdido pass. when i say huge, i mean that when i first saw him, i thought he was a small whale (no joke).

sadly, i had no dive gear w/me.

still, a beautiful sight.

Thalassamania · Jul 2, 2008

Be careful around them in the water, they are not gentle giants.

Hetland · Jul 2, 2008

wow, do tell.....

SuPrBuGmAn · Jul 2, 2008

Thats cool, I've yet to come across one first hand.

JAN 1974 · Jul 3, 2008

interesting. we saw a big leatherback turtle about 2 weeks ago. It was between 1-2 miles SE of the Perdido Pass,while coming back from diving in Pensacola area. I had a same first thought-whale. It dissapeared under water very quick.

Thalassamania · Jul 3, 2008

Hetland:
wow, do tell.....

They're big and rather slow moving, but have a hell of a set of chompers. I've heard tell of them snapping at divers and seen one fin with a big hunk taken out of it. We had a leatherback in the tank at Marine World and when a diver cleaned the tank another diver had to be there to keep him biting the first diver.

LIVES4SHARKS · Jul 3, 2008

They definitely can get quite large! What a treat to see one in person!

Carolyn:sharks:

TwoBitTxn · Jul 4, 2008

We were staying in Ft. Morgan the other week and my brother and cousin ran to the off shore rigs almost every day. They reported seeing many many leatherbacks. Both around the rigs and in open water.

Maybe they are staging to nest?

algulfdiver · Jul 4, 2008

We saw one today about 5 miles east south east of Perdido Pass, It had a head about the size of a 5 gallon bucket.

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