A B.C. nurse has documented a giant sea turtle swimming off the coast of Haida Gwaii, a collection of islands off B.C.'s northwest coast — a sighting that's being celebrated by conservation specialists, as leatherback sea turtles are critically endangered in Canada.

Victoria Bradshaw, who works as a nurse in a remote fishing lodge on Haida Gwaii, was out on the water fishing near Langara Island with her coworker Aidan Horne on July 14 when she saw something pop up out of the water.

"I instantly thought sea lion just because we see them quite often, and Aiden, who I was with, kind of announced, 'That's not a sea lion. That's the sea turtle,'" said Bradshaw.

"We kind of dropped everything, and I grabbed my phone and this very large creature just decided to hang out with us for a little wh

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