Jamie O’Brien may be in a little trouble after his apparently misguided attempt to raise awareness for a herpes-type virus” called fibropapilloma that affects sea turtles with this Brent Bielmann photo, according to a Fred Pawle story in The Australian.
A report on the Khon 2 news website in Hawaii quotes Pat Opay, of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Endangered Species Branch, saying the turtle in the photo may be a green sea turtle. The fine for approaching this endangered breed is up to $13,200.
Could be a pretty costly turtle ride.
[Link: The Australian and KRON]
Fine this idiot. A local surfer has to know better than that.
I wish you could make this stuff up but sadly you cannot, and thus begins today’s lesson about wildlife, media messaging, and stupid animal tricks.
http://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2011/11/north-shore-pro-surfer-jamie-obrien.html
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