They are highly migratory and move from one place to another. They tool up and down the coast, following the food supply, females and even showing their calves where to go to be safe. You are definitely in manatee habitat in the Putnam County area.

It's disappointing, it's wrongheaded but it's what we expected because this is their intent and they're following through.

It's going to come in pieces because that's how our accounting is coming to us.

It's a carefully calculated effort on the part of the people that manatees are in the way of.

There were many findings of exposed wiring and breaker boxes... not up to code. There were also problems with smoke alarms... I guess it was re-occurring in many of the cabins.

They often venture out, go farther than the closest available food resources. But it's a concern that the closest food source won't be available to them this year. They have energy budgets that they don't want to overuse, and if the closest source is in bad shape, they'll have to travel farther to find food.

This is a really ambitious exercise and it was intended to stress our system so that we can find if there are weaknesses.

All a manatee needs, we have found, is a chance to get out of the way of an oncoming boat. We have scientific proof that manatees can sense a boat and attempt to move away. A fast boat doesn't give the slow moving animal an opportunity to get out of the way.

Even if a legal boater hits and injures a manatee, we want them to feel compelled to call in authorities to rescue the animal and not flee for fear of prosecution. Now if boaters are speeding in a slow zone, well, laws are there for that.

There actually wasn't a danger to the public during that time.