 Female sea turtles come to North Carolina's coast to lay their eggs each year. There's a group that's overseeing them. Emerald Isle Sea Turtle Patrol has around 80 volunteers. Dale McCarr is Emerald Isle Sea Turtle Patrol program coordinator and tells WNCT. We look for sea turtle nests, set them up, protect them, and then when it's time for them to hatch, we make sure they all get to the ocean, and then we'll do an excavation.