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Politics / TWO Common Projects Sale NEW LEGS by sherrybeilen: 6:22am On Sep 11, 2016 |
ANDREChewed off his paws to live TWO NEW Common Projects Shoes LEGS WINTERLost her tail Common Projects Sale in a crab trap Since losing three flippers to a shark in 2005, Allison the green sea turtle could swim only in circles and couldn't resurface after diving. "It was like paddling with only one oar," says Jeff George, curator at Sea Turtle Inc. in South Padre Island, Texas. Efforts to attach a prosthetic flipper to her front left nub failed. An intern, Tom Wilson, using about $25 worth of supplies, cobbled together a neoprene suit with a Velcro-attached polycarbon fiber fin. The fin sits atop Allison like a shark's and allows her to swim straight and dive. Says George: "She seems pretty happy now." |
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