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Annie Leonhart ([personal profile] lyingheart) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2014-09-27 02:35 pm

[ open ] operation: baby sea turtle rescue is a go!

WHO: ALL IMPORTS.
WHERE: An Atlantic-facing beach in Eastern Florida.
WHEN: Saturday - Monday
WHAT: Baby leatherback sea-turtles have been stunned by the temperatures of the water at their hatching beach, and must be rounded up in their thousands to be relocated to warmer waters, either to struggle out through the surf on their own, or to be boated out and released directly into the sea!
WARNINGS: ... How can this log have warnings ImPorts rescue baby sea turtles! More information located here.



The long stretch of beach the ImPorts find themselves on is littered with baskets, coolers, styrofoam containers, anything the rescue workers could use to hold the baby sea turtles for transit. Dozens of nests have all emptied of turtles, and gulls roam overhead, looking for opportunities to snatch the stunned baby sea turtles tumbling around in the waves. The shock of the unexpected temperature on their tiny systems renders them incapable of moving, and ImPorts will soon find themselves ushered to the water line to grab tiny, tumbling turtles out of the water.

When enough are collected, a portion of the volunteers and ImPorts are pulled aside to ride with the baby turtles down the coastline to warmer waters, where they'll either be asked to cart the containers down to the waterline to release the baby sea turtles and watch that they don't end up shocked all over again, or instructed to go out to sea on any of the chartered or volunteer-driven boats and release the sea turtles directly into the warmer ocean waters.

Water and lunches will be provided, dinner is haphazard, come as you go. Bright search floodlights are set up on Saturday night so that collection rescue efforts can continue without much interruption. If the same is needed on Sunday night, it will be provided.

For some ImPorts, this will be the first time their arrival isn't treated with great fanfare. People with abilities that assist in the collection and redistribution of the baby sea turtles will get relieved displays of gratitude from attending volunteers and any press drawn to the scene, but much of the fervency seen elsewhere will be largely absent.
hands4healing: (Aheh)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-10-12 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the building we went in wasn't attacked, but...it...was on fire?
theoryandcalculation: (ehhh)

[personal profile] theoryandcalculation 2014-10-14 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Why would you go in a burning building!? That's against all rules of safety and common sense!
hands4healing: (Aheh)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-10-15 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles and shrugs.] There were people in there who needed help.
theoryandcalculation: (i've studied the theories)

[personal profile] theoryandcalculation 2014-10-19 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[That makes him deflate.]

Did you get them out?
hands4healing: (It's Okay If You Go)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-10-19 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
We found one! [She found one, really, but Winry will always share credit for that sort of thing.] He passed out from the smoke. Once we got him outside, and to the medical crew, he turned out all right.



theoryandcalculation: (can I swim like that)

[personal profile] theoryandcalculation 2014-10-24 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[He actually looks in awe.]

You actually saved someone? So you're a real hero.

[He's not sure he could ever do something like that.]
hands4healing: (Aheh)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-10-24 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I guess? I mean, Annie and I dragged him outside. [After Winry nearly tripped on him, that is.] But he turned out okay!
theoryandcalculation: (can I swim like that)

[personal profile] theoryandcalculation 2014-10-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
But that's being a real hero! Someone is still alive because of your actions!
hands4healing: (It's Okay If You Go)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-10-27 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
I...

[Never thought about it that way.]

I guess you're right, Rei. Thank you.
theoryandcalculation: (i've studied the theories)

[personal profile] theoryandcalculation 2014-11-01 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

[He doesn't really know why he's being thanked, though.]

But I should be getting back to helping the turtles. Not as impressive, but still important, in its own way.

[Turtles are too cute to die.]
hands4healing: (I approve!)

[personal profile] hands4healing 2014-11-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's very important!

I'll see you again soon.