Fourteen years ago, biologist David Owens stood with two veterinarians around a makeshift table in the caverns of the still- not-opened South Carolina Aquarium, trying to figure out where to make the first cut to operate on a dying young sea turtle.
When Owens, a College of Charleston professor, stood over that turtle in 2000, he and the others began to realize what it would take to able to do it full time – a purposefully designed, dedicated facility. It was a lot to ask.
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