New England Aquarium

This guide to the New England Aquarium in Boston follows Myrtle, a green sea turtle rescued from a closing Provincetown aquarium and settled into the Giant Ocean Tank on June 12, 1970, already an adult of uncertain age. You'll hear how the divers who work her tank treat her, the tradition of assigning someone to distract her during her twice-yearly physical, and how generations of visitors have returned to the same glass to introduce their children to her. Watch for her gliding near the surface among the coral and stingrays.