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Do you have an ocean story of your own? Perhaps a story from the first time you ever saw a sea turtle? Or maybe you have a tale or two about your favorite ocean places from your childhood? We’d love to read it in the comments below! A sea turtle’s story begins beneath the sand alongside up to 180 siblings all waiting to hatch at the same time. Once the hatching process begins, the baby turtles all work to dig themselves out of the nest and race for the horizon. The lucky few who make it to the water are swept off on an epic journey across oceans. It's likely this green sea turtle spent years soaring along the Gulf Stream all the way to the Sargasso Sea before returning to its home in the Bahamas. Everything has a story behind it. But the art of storytelling is uniquely human. We alone are the authors and keepers of our planet’s library— crafting its narrative from rock layers, ancient bones, and clues etched in stone from some of the world’s earliest storytellers. For those of us here at SeaLegacy, there is no story more important or interconnected than the story of our ocean. It is only through the act of telling the ocean’s story- from its formation almost 4 billion years ago to its current state from decades of human activity- can we hope to understand and heal it. That’s why we send our storytellers across the seas in search of ocean narratives— we listen to the story of our planet and elevate the voices protecting its ocean heart and legacy. 📹 video by @paulnicklen cover photo by @mitty #storytelling #seaturtle #oceanconservation #turningthetide