False advertising on sea turtle CT scanner costs S.C. Aquarium $400,000, lawsuit claims
False advertising on sea turtle CT scanner costs S.C. Aquarium $400,000, lawsuit claims
By Dave Munday
A $443,000 CT scanner for sea turtles that required no special shielding seemed like a good deal at the time, but it didn’t turn out that way.
It wasn’t until the room to house the scanner in the South Carolina Aquarium’s new Sea Turtle Recovery Center was finished that staff found out they had been misled, according to the suit filed Wednesday against Epica Medical Innovations and parent company Epica International, maker of the Pegaso CT scanner.
The turtle hospital was built, including the scanning room. Then came the surprise.
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