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Amazing! Turtle Recovers From Shark Attack With Prosthetic Fins!!

Amazing! Turtle Recovers From Shark Attack With Prosthetic Fins!!


Usually when a sea turtle loses a fin due to a shark attack – there’s now a finless turtle in the world and that’s the end of that.
But when Hu, a 25-year-old female loggerhead, was found by fisherman and sent to the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan – the researchers there were hellbent on getting this turtle a fin again!
They tried 27 times without success. But when they used two rubber fins, held together by a slip-over vest to prevent Hu from breaking free, they found a winner!!
Check out the inspirational story by clicking PLAY (above) !!!

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Feb 14, 2013 10:03am PDT

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