At the end of August, some three miles offshore of Charleston, a boater cleaning up a pile of marine debris noticed a small sea turtle entangled helplessly within. He put in a call to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, which quickly dispatched a team to rescue the creature and transport it to the South Carolina Aquarium. “Seeing a turtle this small that had already gone through such trauma from entanglement in plastic debris was heartbreaking,” says Melissa Ranly, the manager of the aquarium’s Sea Turtle Care Center.