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Region	Date	Species	Common Name	Species ID Certainty	Location	Number Sighted	Photo Available?	Comments
Malakula Island	06-Nov-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Uri Island, Malakula	2		One juvenile and one adult observed at different times of the dive. Juvenile remained at about 3m depth. Slowly surfaced, took one breath, slowly descended. Approached a diver, turned slowly to next diver, slowly swam away.
Malakula Island	03-Nov-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Certain	Uri Island, Malakula	1	Yes	Caught by fishermen. Brought to RV Heraclitus for sale. Missing one back flipper, wound was completely healed. Heraclitus guest bought and released turtle. It swam off quickly.
Malakula Island	03-Nov-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Fairly certain	Uri Island, Malakula	1
Malakula Island	03-Nov-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Uri Island, Malakula	1		Slowly swimming in water column.
Malakula Island	01-Nov-05	Unidentified	Sea Turtle	Uncertain	Uri Island, Malakula	6		Male. Swimming slowly in calm water.
Malakula Island	01-Nov-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Uri Island, Malakula	1		Sighted from surface, descended slowly.
Malakula Island	19-Oct-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Uri Island, Malakula	1		Surfaced at a distance of about 200 m.
Malakula Island	16-Oct-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Certain	Sakao Island (Fringing Reef), Maskelyne Islands	1		Male. Swam deeper and away from reef into channel.
Malakula Island	16-Oct-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Certain	Sakao Island, North-East Channel, Maskelyne Islands	2		One turtle breathing, no reaction to diver. Second swimming, moved away fast.
Malakula Island	13-Oct-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Fairly certain	Uliveo Island, Maskelyne Islands	1		Swimming, no reaction to diver.
Malakula Island	12-Oct-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Certain	Sakao Reef, Maskelyne Islands	1		Swimming, moved away fast.
Malakula Island	12-Oct-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Sakao Reef, Maskelyne Islands	1		Swimming, moved away fast, visible for 20 seconds.
Malakula Island	29-Sep-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Certain	Uliveo Island, Maskelyne Islands	1		Swimming, moved away fast, visible approx. 5 seconds.
Malakula Island	29-Sep-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Certain	Sakao Island, Maskelyne Islands	1		Sitting on rubble field, did not move when boat drove close to it. Started to move off slowly when boat turned back around towards it.
Malakula Island	25-Sep-05	Unidentified	Sea Turtle	Uncertain	Lamen Bay, Epi Island	5		Feeding on seagrass.
Malakula Island	25-Sep-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Certain	Lamen Bay, Epi Island	5		Three males, two females. The turtles are supposedly residents to the bay and human encounters are common. They were observed feeding on sea grass (Halodule spp.).
Malakula Island	25-Sep-05	Unidentified	Sea Turtle	Uncertain	Lamen Bay, Epi Island	14		Turtles are resident in this bay and encounters with humans are common. Feeding in seagrass beds.
Malakula Island	24-Sep-05	Chelonia mydas	Green	Fairly certain	Lamen Bay, Epi Island	2		Observed while swimming around Heraclitus at anchorage. Turtles right underneath ship, one swimming, one feeding.
Malakula Island	23-Sep-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Certain	Lamen Bay, Epi Island	1		Turtle under ledge, swam out and circled both snorkellers, then swam away. Appeared very curious.
Port Vila	18-Sep-05	Unidentified	Sea Turtle	Certain	Port Vila	1		Swimming fast. Juvenile.
Tanna Island	23-Aug-05	Unidentified	Sea Turtle	Uncertain	Port Resolution, Tanna	1		Surfaced for a few seconds, then swam just below surface.
Tanna Island	23-Aug-05	Eretmochelys imbricata	Hawksbill	Fairly certain	Port Resolution, Tanna	1		Seen from surface. While turtle was submerged, bubbles seen on surface. The locals told us that they sometimes eat turtle.