I just saw an episode of Blue Planet 2 (excellent) that said that scientists now think that baby sea turtles spend much of their time growing to adulthood on and around a piece of driftwood they find. Without something to rest on, and a source of algae (when they're tiny) or crustaceans/limpets/small fish as they get bigger, they won't live long enough to do open ocean hunting.
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