Hatchling sea turtles, like this juvenile loggerhead ... Photograph by David Doubilet The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described ...

The Sargasso Sea Commission notes that endangered species ... including the Porbeagle shark and several types of turtles. To borrow the words of renowned marine biologist Dr Sylvia Earle, it ...

“Many scientists call the Sargasso Sea a nursery in the open ... Those infants include baby loggerhead sea turtles that swim there after hatching, but also eels, shrimp, crabs, mahi mahi ...