Sea turtles thrive in warm waters. So what was this one doing near death off Canada?

Moira is a mystery. A loggerhead sea turtle, she’s a creature of the subtropics, so it’s really not clear how she ended up in a bay in Canada. But there she was in February, floating in a kelp bed in Pedder Bay on the southeast end of Vancouver Island. She was in bad shape, cold-stunned in winter waters. It took months of rehab and paperwork, but Moira was flown from Canada to San Diego this ...