Damien Enright: At loggerheads: when paddleboarder and turtle met at sea

It's an astounding picture of a loggerhead turtle; and how a man standing on a paddleboard, on a moving sea, could snap it is truly amazing.

Damien Enright: At loggerheads: when paddleboarder and turtle met at sea

It's an astounding picture of a loggerhead turtle; and how a man standing on a paddleboard, on a moving sea, could snap it is truly amazing.

JoseRa Relloso filmed it about a kilometre off the coast of La Gomera, in the Canary Islands. The turtle was passing Gomera on its five-year journey circling the Sargasso Sea, on the North Atlantic gyre, from its natal beaches in Florida, and stopped by JoseRa’s board to ‘hangout’.

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