It's a scene that wildlife researchers on Cape Cod say happens every year: several dozen Kemp's ridley sea turtles come ashore on Cape Cod after getting lost trying to swim around the bay.

This year, however, the number of stranded turtles has swelled to a few hundred, prompting some to see it as a sign of renewed health for the population of Kemp's ridley turtles worldwide, which National Geographic notes numbers only about 1,000.

What's happened in Cape Cod this year is "an outlier of outliers" Tony LaCasse, a spokesman for the New England Aquarium, told the Boston Globe, noting that rescuers have picked up nearly 400 Kemp's ridley turtles from the shores of Cape Cod this fall, about double the previous record.

The animals become stranded when they can't figure out how to get out of Cape Cod Bay to get to warmer waters.

On Tuesday, nearly 200 of the endangered sea turtles that were stranded on Cape Cod will be airlifted to Orlando, Florida. After that, they'll be sent to marine rehabilitation facilities where they'll stay until they can be re-released into the ocean.

The stranded turtles, weighing up to 10 pounds, were collected by the Massachusetts Audubon Society at Wellfleet Bay and treated at the aquarium's marine animal hospital in Quincy.

After the 193 sea turtles are flown to Florida on Tuesday, more than 150 others will remain at the Massachusetts hospital for a four-day re-warming process. Nearly 100 more are being cared for at a Wellfleet nature center.

See the full story in the Boston Globe.