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Speaker 1: This is really bad news. In the last few days,

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Speaker 1: hundreds of precious sea turtles have washed up on southwest

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Speaker 1: Florida beaches. They didn't wash up alive. Now, according to

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Speaker 1: turtle researcher Kelly Sloan, many of the washed up turtles

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Speaker 1: are mature adults, and that is really bad because only

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Speaker 1: one in a thousand turtles ever makes it to adulthood.

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Speaker 1: It takes longerhead turtles twenty to thirty years to mature,

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Speaker 1: and they're already protected species. So this many washed up

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Speaker 1: turtles could really hurt the sustainability of turtledom. But there

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Speaker 1: is a small comfort. For once, this horrible disaster isn't

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Speaker 1: man's fault. Mother nature is killing her own. Scientists say

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Speaker 1: the west coast of Florida from Tampa Key West is

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Speaker 1: having the worst red tide bloom since two thousand six.

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Speaker 1: The culprit killing hundreds of adult sea turtles is algae.

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Speaker 1: But here on the East coast of Florida where I am,

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Speaker 1: everything's cool, all is safe. So all of you smart

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Speaker 1: adult turtles, and I know you're listening, save yourself. Swim

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Speaker 1: to the east coast. Why we might even leave the

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Speaker 1: light on for you. M