The utilisation of UAE waters by this species is uncertain but is likely to be for passage only, and no nesting beaches are known in the UAE. Juveniles are believed to occur in similar habitats as the adults (i.e,. pelagic waters) where they forage on gelatinous prey such as jellyfish, salps and tunicates (Kopitsky et al. 2004, Abreu-Grobois and Plotkin 2008). Satellite telemetry studies on Olive Ridley nesting turtles have been undertaken at the south of Masirah Island. Tagging results indicated that six turtles tracked spent most of their time to the west of Masirah foraging at depths of less than 100 m (Rees et al. 2012).Females lay their nests on coastal sandy beaches from which neonates emerge and enter the marine environment to continue their development. They remain in a pelagic phase, drifting passively with major currents that disperse far from their natal sites, with juveniles sharing some of the adults' habitats (Kopitsky et al. 2000) until sexual maturity is reached. Reproductively active males and females migrate toward coastal zones and concentrate near nesting beaches. However, some males appear to remain in oceanic waters and mate with females en route to their nesting beaches (Plotkin et al. 1996, Kopitsky et al. 2000). Their post-breeding migrations are complex, with pathways varying annually (Plotkin 1994) and with no apparent migratory corridors, swimming hundreds or thousands of kilometres, commonly within the 20'°C isotherms.This species displays a unique breeding strategy with females nesting synchronously in large numbers that include hundreds to thousands of females over a period of days in few and specific areas around the world; a phenomenon known as Arribada (word for arrival in Spanish). However, the most common breeding strategy is the solitary or disperse (non-arribada) nesting with no apparent synchronicity and of three or four orders of magnitude lower than arribada nesting populations (Bernardo and Plotkin 2007). At some localities, a mixture of these two forms of nesting can also occur.