Episode
Natural World: Ocean Drifters
Overview
Examines the weird planktonic animals that drift in the current of the Gulf Stream as it passes Florida and enters the Atlantic. Follows a baby loggerhead turtle which hatches on a Florida beach and heads out to the Atlantic.
Details
- Series
- Natural World
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1995-02-26
Episode context
Ocean Drifters is Episode 9 in Season 13 of Natural World. It aired on 1995-02-26.
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