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As a boy, I sat glued to the TV for a week for... Turtle Week. Yup, Reading Rainbow had a week on sea turtles and I... was... fascinated. This story really moved me this week.

CNN reports: Playalinda Beach, Titusville, Florida (CNN) -- One-day-old loggerhead turtles were set free adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center overnight, scurrying down a beach in the cover of darkness to begin their lives.

The baby turtles were hatched at a space center facility after being transferred from the beaches in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama.
Biologists believed 700 to 800 turtle nests were in jeopardy of perishing, with BP's oil lurking offshore.

"We would have 100 percent mortality if the hatchlings were not able to be translocated," said Jeff Trandahl of the Fish and Wildlife Foundation. "We are looking at relocating 70,000 to 80,000 turtle eggs."

So far, 13,000 eggs have arrived and more each day. Turtle power! You can see them scurrying across the night sands in this video...