This is a heart-warming story of the recovery of a Green Sea Turtle horribly mutilated by a shark attack. The turtle was rescued by Sea Turtle Inc although at the time, she was not believed to have a great chance of pulling through.

Sea Turtle Inc nicknamed the turtle Allison. She only had one flipper which according to rescuers can be a very difficult thing to overcome for turtles. Without the speed and propulsion of their flippers, turtles would struggle to come up to the surface to get air. Typically, turtles with three flippers can learn to cope and be released back into the sea, and turtles with two flippers can be taken in by zoos. For a turtle to live with only one flipper, the chances of survival are drastically decreased.

Sea Turtle Inc works hard to rehabilitate injured turtles, and did not have much hope for Allison. She caught their hearts however, and the rescuers worked hard to design something to make her life easier. Due to the stump of her flippers being too short to attach prosthetics, the centre had to come up with different ideas to help the turtle swim. With only one flipper remaining, the turtle found it hard to navigate and swim in anything but circles. Allison is today happily swimming around with a neoprene sleeve that covers almost three-quarters of her body with a flipper that acts like a rudder. Although Allison will never return to the wild, the happy turtle can now enjoy her life swimming around at the rescue centre.