VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Massive waves churned up by hurricanes Humberto and Imelda in the Atlantic are crashing onshore along the Florida coast, and that’s causing major issues for baby sea turtles .

The conditions are so bad in the water right now that the newly hatched sea turtles are being kicked back onto the beach and getting stuck in piles of sargassum seaweed .

"They’re not able to just float and take good breaths," Alyssa Hancock of the Marine Science Center told FOX 35 Orlando . "They’re actually getting tumbled in those waves. They will kind of get stuck in that seaweed, the sargassum. And once that washes onshore, they’ll come out of the surf, but then they’ll actually be stuck in there."

According to a report from FOX 35 in Orlando, Turtle Patrol Volusia located a juvenile gr

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