A Sea Turtle picture a day #7

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle picture a day. Today we find ourselves in a very unlikely place for sea turtles,Much less the rarest of them all. Vancouver Canada. Yes the Fine city of Vancouver in Canada. I only live an hour from Vancouver and when I found out there were Leatherback Sea turtles there I had to go and find out why they were there and most importantly what were they doing there.
The Leatherback Sea turtle(Dermochelys coriacea)Is the largest sea turtle in the world and has never been raised in captivity where the turtle has lived more than a year. The reason is the Leatherback turtle is oceanic pelagic what that means is that it speands it whole live swimming in the open ocean and knows no boundries. Since it knows no boundries earlier attepts to keep on in captivity failed becouse the turtles would swim into the sides of the tanks and injure themselves. That was until a harness system was designed to keep the turtle from being able to touch the bottom or sides as it swam constantly in the tank,
This photo was taken with a 60mm macro lens