Adelita (turtle) (original) (raw)

Adelita is the name of the first sea turtle tracked across an ocean basin, the northern Pacific Ocean. A satellite tag was placed on Adelita, a female loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), in 1996 by marine biologist for a research project. The Adelita tracking project provided the first proof of the trans-Pacific migration of loggerhead sea turtles. Adelita was also the first animal to swim across an ocean while being tracked by a satellite.