In 2015, 289 sea turtle nests (277 loggerhead, 10 green, and 2 Hawksbill nests) and 242 false crawls were documented at Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The first nesting activity was documented on May 13 and the last nesting activity was documented on September 4. Mean hatch success for all nests was 56.8% while mean emergence success was 48.8%. A total of 286 stranded sea turtles were documented within the seashore in 2015.