A thirty-five-pound green sea turtle named Haven that spent the last six months in rehab at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Florida, finally got her chance to go home Friday.

The 8-year-old endangered green sea turtle spent the last six months rehabilitating at The Turtle Hospital after being rescued, wrapped in fishing line and covered in fibropapilloma tumors. Following months of rehab, laser treatment, and cancer-fighting eye drops, Haven was declared healthy and ready to return to the sea.

Haven took her time at her release on Friday, at a crowded Sombrero Beach in Marathon while marking her entry as the only rehabilitated and only juvenile in this year's Sea Turtle Conservancy' s Tour de Turtles event.

Participants in this "race" are typically nesting female adults that migrate

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