Turtles
Loggerhead Turtle
Caretta caretta · Marine reptile, family Cheloniidae
The loggerhead is the heavyweight journeyman of the turtle world: thick-necked, barrel-bodied, its outsized amber head built around jaws that crack conch like walnuts. Divers meet it in less glamorous places than its reef cousins: trudging across shell hash off Florida, wedged on a North Carolina wreck, cruising sandy gutters at Sodwana ahead of summer nesting. What it lacks in delicacy it repays in presence; a big female pushing past resembles slow-moving furniture and utterly ignores you. Its hatchlings ride ocean gyres for years (the 'lost years') before returning to coastal shallows, one of the great migration stories in the sea.
어디서 언제 볼 수 있나
"상주종"은 해당 목적지에서 대부분의 다이빙 시 만날 수 있다는 뜻이고, "계절종"은 표기된 달에 안정적으로 출현한다는 뜻입니다. 그 외의 생물은 계획이 아닌 보너스로 여기세요.
| 목적지 | 신뢰도 | 월 | 참고 사항 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida KeysUnited States | Resident: seen on most dives | 연중 가능 | |
| Sodwana BaySouth Africa | Seasonal: reliable in season | Nov–Feb | |
| Malta & GozoMalta | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| North Carolina Outer BanksUnited States | Occasional | May–Sep |
한눈에 보는 최적의 달
| 월 | 믿을 수 있는 다이빙 명소 |
|---|---|
| January | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| February | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| March | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| April | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| May | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| June | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| July | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| August | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| September | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| October | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| November | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| December | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
이해하기
서식지: Hard bottoms, wrecks, ledges, and open shelf waters; less reef-bound than greens or hawksbills
범위: Temperate and subtropical oceans worldwide: the US Atlantic coast, Mediterranean, southern Africa, Oman, Japan, and eastern Australia hold major nesting populations
행동 특성: A powerful, big-headed cruiser often met plodding across open sand or hauled up on a wreck deck like a boulder with flippers. Less site-faithful underwater than reef turtles, it covers ocean basins between feeding and nesting grounds; barnacle-crusted shells testify to the mileage.
먹이: Hard-shelled prey (conch, whelks, crabs, and urchins) crushed with massive jaw muscles housed in the oversized head
크기: 보통 0.9 m; 최대 기록 수심 1.1 m (carapace length; a heavily built turtle commonly well over 100 kg).
이 생물 주변에서의 행동 요령
Standard turtle rules: no touching or riding, clear path to the surface, and extra distance during nesting season near mating pairs, which are focused and easily stressed.
보존
Vulnerable; longline and trawl bycatch remains the central threat, answered in part by hook and excluder-device rules, while beach protection has stabilized several nesting populations.
관련 다이브 사이트 목록
강조 표시된 사이트는 편집팀이 해당 종에 대해 직접 등록한 곳이며, 숫자는 1990년 이후 사이트 기준 약 5km 이내에서 기록된 GBIF 출현 건수입니다.
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