Nearly three dozen cold-stunned sea turtles are heading home after being released back to the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday on Jekyll Island with the help of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and several other East Coast organizations.

Members of all the organizations and the Jekyll Island Authority braved windy, rainy weather to see to it that all the turtles, 33 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles and one green sea turtle, made their way safely back to warmer waters.

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