Everything about Sea Turtles - Smarter Every Day 239

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[smartereveryday]

I hope you enjoy this video. My thought was to not make a "YouTube video" style video.... but to make something I would be proud of for years to come. About a year ago I was presented with an opportunity to go to a sea turtle conservation center in Costa Rica. There I met Valerie, an amazing conservation researcher who has a true passion for sea turtles. When I returned home I contacted Dr. Christine Finniger who taught me more. When the Cook Museum told me about their amazing opportunity with Kale the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, I was totally floored. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed the experience.

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Destin

[amyrice]

33:06 That's my sister!!! Turtles were the main reason she studied marine biology! It's so cool to see her talking about her passion to such a large audience!

[tacticalultimatum]

“Can I film” - Si. “Are these babies” - Si. “What species of turtle are these” - Sea

[Seagullmania]

50 minutes. And it was like an interactive lecture.

Keep doing what you're doing Destin this is top quality content.

[garyfarrell]

My steps for this video
1. Click on video
2. Like the video
3. See the video is 54 minutes long
4. Pause video
5. Get a snack
6. Get a drink
7. Find a comfortable spot to sit
8. Play video
9. Repeat steps 4 to 8

[ChrisScott]

Hey Destin - I never comment. Until now. This was really well done, and your passion and wonder for the world around you really shines through. Keep up the good work.

[Killerspieler]

Destin: "That's crazy!"
Destiño: "¡Loco!"

[calmmosquito]

Just watched the whole vid and it revealed more about sea turtles that I feel I was needing to know, and Destin, THIS is why I subscribed

[andrewphillips]

"He's just so adorable and cute!", said the most adorable and cute person ever.

[choco]

me : "I wonder what his next video will be about..."
Destin : "I like turtles"

[samuelhopely]

My girl and I put this on to fall asleep to (not every day you get an hour of Destin)

We did not fall asleep. This was just too dang good. Thank you for your amazing work, as always.

[GrafRucola]

53:37 Classic Destin: I wanna know how the control surfaces of the fins work :D

[JokingChickenn]

00:00 - beginning
02:13 - Hawaii encounter
03:01 - Learning About Nests
05:50 - Hatchling Release
13:00 - Movement and Range
25:10 - Kale the turtle to cook museum
29:43 - SPONSOR - DJI
32:12 - Turtle Rehab
42:15 - Rescuing injured turtles
43:37 - transporting a sea turtle
48:55 - Kale gets in temporary tank
50:20 - why Destin loves turtles
53:18 - ending

[royzala]

This man will be able to say he has done everything in the world in a couple years..

[arekk]

Learning has never been so much fun in my life. Many thanks. Greetings from Germany

[daviddayan]

What America really needs:
"This is going to be less of a me giving you the knowledge, because I don't have the knowledge. All these experts have the knowledge."
-Destin 2020

[yellowcanarystudios]

Destin, I'm continually amazed by your work. Even in this video, an hour-long video about turtles, you still fully engage me the entire time. I'm even entertained by your sponsor bit where you take an unfortunate roadblock and use your own preparedness to turn your situation around. I'm happy to have been subscribed for years, and I look forward to the years to come.

Thank you for being one of the most positive channels on this platform, a shining beacon in the darkness.

[pddixon]

What a lovely episode. It didn't feel like an hour at all.

I like the way you 'invite yourself' and we get to come along too

[The_Man_In_Red]

When I was a wee lad, my family and I were on vacation and stayed at the beach until sunset and even after dark, hoping to see some bioluminescent jelly fish. Instead what we found were dozens of baby sea turtles hatching before our eyes in a several shallow depressions.

Of course around half of them were mesmerized by the lights of the nearby highway and started ponderously approaching in that direction which was inevitable death for such small, cute, harmless little things.

So we spent about a good hour re-orienting the waywards back to the sandy surf and into the big blue ocean. I'd like to think those sea turtles we saved are still out there, thriving to this very day.

[ajfager]

"Just a reminder, this video is about Sea Turtles" (made my day).