The Green turtle

The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) is one of the most tropical turtles. Migrating species, it does not hesitate to swim thousands of kilometres from its reproduction place in search for food. It does not reproduce in the Canary Islands.




The green turtle can be identified easily by the four side plates of its dorsal, which differentiates it from another turtle that we can meet in the Canaries, the Loggerhead sea turtle, which carries five plates.

Its size is on average 110 cm and it weighs between 80 to 130 kg.








Young, the turtle is primarily carnivorous and stops at some dive sites. The “Fish feeding” (to feed the marine animals with, for example, dead fish) became such an attraction that we can find a dozen of diving boats at the same place the weekend (not talking about the other divers starting from the shore …). Dive centres even offer some try dive under the commercial topic “dive with the turtles!”.




An uncontrolled practice, which put enormous pressures on the underwater realm in the area.

To know everything, or nearly, about the green turtle: Wikipedia.