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To mark World Sea Turtle Day (June 16th) the Jekyll Island Authority’s Georgia Sea Turtle Center (GSTC) and Eternal Reefs memorialized Griffin and cast his ashes into a reef ball on Friday, June 17 The day also featured several sea turtles being released into the ocean after successful rehabilitation at GSTC (www.GeorgiaSeaTurtleCenter.org). Griffin, an adult male loggerhead sea turtle who suffered from a condition similar to a human stroke, had been a patient at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center since November 2007 and touched the hearts of countless visitors, staff and volunteers. His ashes return to his ocean home in a large, eco-friendly reef ball which will be placed in a permitted location in the ocean off Miami in July.

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