Dingle, County Kerry in southwest Ireland, she was rescued by a team from the local Oceanworld aquarium and scientists from University College Cork and the University of Wales, Swansea, were able to fit a satellite tracking device to the turtle before she was returned to the Atlantic.

In the next eight months she swam 5,000 miles to the Cape Verde Islands, off west Africa. From Ireland, the turtle swam along the French coast towards the Bay of Biscay before turning round and zigzagging around off northwest Spain, suggesting that she had found a rich supply of jellyfish food. She then headed towards Madeira and the Canary Islands and on to off the Western Sahara and then off Senegal.

For almost three months the signals from the battery-operated tracking device stopped but somehow resumed to show that she had moved away from the African coast and was now heading north again, suggesting that she will not mate this year.