{"id":23596,"date":"2024-02-13T03:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=23596"},"modified":"2024-02-13T03:02:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T08:02:11","slug":"down-one-flipper-new-seal-sisters-capture-hearts-at-jenkinsons-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/02\/down-one-flipper-new-seal-sisters-capture-hearts-at-jenkinsons-aquarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Down One Flipper, New ‘Seal Sisters’ Capture Hearts at Jenkinson’s Aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"'Turbo'<\/a>

\u2018Turbo\u2019 the Pacific harbor seal at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium. (Photo: Jenkinson\u2019s)<\/p><\/div>\n

What\u2019s a flipper between sisters?<\/p>\n

Just a short time after suffering the heartbreak of losing one of its most beloved residents<\/a>, Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium<\/a> in Point Pleasant Beach announced a heartwarming story of two mammals who will get to live their lives with plenty of fish, fawning and attention.<\/p>\n

Jenkinson\u2019s lost Luseal, a 34-year-old harbor seal who was rescued after losing an eye and becoming stranded in the Point Pleasant Canal in the early 1990s. \u201cLucy\u201d became a favorite of visitors and staff, and though she needed to be kept in captivity due to her injuries, she lived more than a decade longer than most of her counterparts in the wild.<\/p>\n

Jenkinson\u2019s officials say a new harbor seal \u2013 who, like Lucy, found herself a bit too banged up for the wilds of the ocean \u2013 has taken residence at the boardwalk-based aquarium. This young seal, which will join Lucy\u2019s former playmate, are not Jersey Shore natives, but rather California \u201cbeach bums\u201d who came east to capture the hearts of Shore boardwalk visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurbo,\u201d a Pacific harbor seal, was rescued by the Marine Mammal Center<\/a> in Sausalito, Calif., when she was only 2 weeks old on a rocky beach in California. She was brought to the center April 15, 2023 after being found in Rocky Point in Marin County, north of San Francisco. She was only about 15-pounds when rescued.<\/p>\n

\"'Turbo'<\/a>

\u2018Turbo\u2019 the Pacific harbor seal at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium. (Photo: Jenkinson\u2019s)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"'Turbo'<\/a>

\u2018Turbo\u2019 the Pacific harbor seal at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium. (Photo: Jenkinson\u2019s)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"'Turbo'<\/a>

\u2018Turbo\u2019 the Pacific harbor seal at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium. (Photo: Jenkinson\u2019s)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cShe was separated from her mom and suffered some injuries including those to her front flipper, which led to her needing that flipper amputated,\u201d Jenkinson\u2019s staff said in an announcement. \u201cShe was deemed non-releasable by NOAA due to her removed flipper and general lack of chasing and eating fish, both which would severely lessen her chances of survival in the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was released from the California facility Jan. 17 and arrived at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium about a month ago. She was then introduced to her \u201cbig sister,\u201d Noelani, on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girls are going great together and Turbo can\u2019t wait to meet all the visitors!\u201d the announcement said.<\/p>\n

Noelani and Turbo are not genetically related, but will occupy the same space together. Previously, Noelani shared the water with Lucy, and was known for being extra playful and happy to be around a friend. Coincidentally, Noelani was also stranded in California and recovered at the same rescue center in Sausalito. She was also deemed non-releasable due to clinical blindness caused by a form of brain atrophy.<\/p>\n

\"Noelani,<\/a>

Noelani, a Pacific harbor seal that has been living at Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium since 2018. (Photo: Jenkinson\u2019s)<\/p><\/div>\n

Noelani was born in 2017 and rescued in 2018, coming to Point Pleasant Beach later that year.<\/p>\n

Pacific harbor seals can reach 170-pounds in weight, though Noelani was always notably smaller than her late tank-mate Lucy. We\u2019ll have to see how Turbo grows over the years to come.<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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What\u2019s a flipper between sisters? Just a short time after suffering the heartbreak of losing one of its most beloved residents, Jenkinson\u2019s Aquarium in Point Pleasant Beach announced a heartwarming story of two mammals who will get to live their lives with plenty of fish, fawning and attention. Jenkinson\u2019s lost Luseal, a 34-year-old harbor seal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,4484,3399,5144,5142,5141,16,5143],"class_list":["post-23596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-jenkinsons-aquarium","tag-marine-mammal-center","tag-noelani","tag-pacific-habor-seal","tag-point-pleasant-beach","tag-turbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/turbo_seal_1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-68A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}