Summary- 30% of turtles meet their doom en route of the saftey of the deep water. David Booth from the University of Queensland wanted to compute how much oxygen they consume. Booth calculated that they consumed a mean 4.79 kilojoules during their 18-hour swim. At first during the experiment they tugged with all their might and main , generating a force of 45 millinewtons. But this soon dropped to 35 millinewtons, and, eventually off at 20 after 12 hours.
Opinion- Did you know that they are supposed to survive 2 weeks without food during this trip?!? I think that is insane but I do see why they aren' t supposed stop swimming yet. I wonder why they have to do it alone. I wonder why the mother doesn't help them. I wonder what would happen if humans interfered.
http://www.macroevolution.net/sea-turtle-hatchlings.html
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