Navy drops off turtles on way to Mediterranean rescue mission

Two VIPs are back in their natural habitat thanks to the Naval Service who deposited them off the western coast of Gibraltar, on a patrol ship’s way to a migrant rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea.

At precisely 2pm yesterday, two loggerhead turtles were released from LÉ Róisín in Atlantic waters.

The turtles had been been washed up on the Irish coast during last winter’s storms and were nursed back to health at Ocean World in Dingle.