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4/24/08

Magic Turtle?

So, I've been having a blast clicking through the tracking data at seaturtle.org. I initially went there to check and see if the locator for Quiddick, one of the green turtles rescued by the Aquarium, was still active. It isn't, but here's the data set from a little over a year of tracking:


It's a bummer that the transmitter died, because it looks like Quiddick was in the midst of a multi-year transatlantic journey. I would love to see that completed data.

Anyway, you can see there are dotted lines in the map that (I guess) indicate lapses in transmissions (possibly due to depth or atmospheric conditions?). That's all well and good in the open ocean, but check out the data set from a Georgia Sea Turtle Rescue Center case named Bev:

Tell me that doesn't look like Bev decided to skip the Keys and hopped a greyhound through Miami.


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