{"id":5025,"date":"2010-12-17T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T20:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2022-02-07T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:10:03","slug":"diving-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/this-just-in\/diving-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leatherback Turtles (<em>Dermochelys coriacea<\/em>) are expert divers who plunge down into the ocean to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3988\">catch food<\/a> and cool-off from the hot tropical sun. But how do these reptiles move through the water: do they exhale all their air and sink to the bottom like a rock, or do they doggie-paddle their way to the bottom? To find out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4498\">water-proof trackers<\/a> were attached to five female turtles in the wild. The information that was collected from them gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4596\">scientists<\/a> a really good idea about how these turtles dive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11309\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11309  \" title=\"leatherback turtle swimming\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_leatherback.jpg\" alt=\"leatherback turtle swimming\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_leatherback.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_leatherback-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/swimming_leatherback-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flickr credit: johnnymd314<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was revealed that the Leatherbacks, unlike many other diving animals, <strong>dive with their lungs full of air<\/strong>. As they go down into the ocean, the air inside their bodies gets compressed and they achieve something called neutral or <strong>negative buoyancy<\/strong> (which basically means there body density matches that of the water). At this stage, they can move through the water without having to fight the force of positive buoyancy; allowing them to easily glide deep underwater. When they\u2019re ready to return to the surface, all they do is swim upward until the air in their <strong>bodies expands and carries them to the surface<\/strong>. You could say they\u2019re like miniature submarines \u2013 so cool!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/213\/23\/ii\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jeb.biologists.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/213\/23\/ii<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of water-proof trackers, scientists understand how Leatherback Turtles are able to swim to the deep depths of the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[666,402,1353,931],"tags":[303,139,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-5025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amphibians-and-reptiles","8":"category-this-just-in","9":"category-to-edit","10":"category-all","11":"tag-swimming","12":"tag-turtle","13":"tag-underwater"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}