SPERM WHALE DIVES TRACKED BY RADIO TAG TELEMETRY

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Watkins, William A., Daher, Mary Ann, Dimarzio, Nancy A., Samuels, Amy, Wartzok, Douglas, Fristrup, Kurt M., Howey, Paul W., Maiefski, Romaine R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01018.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1748-7692.2002.tb01018.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2002.tb01018.x

A bstract Dives of a 12‐m sperm whale ( Physeter catodon Linnaeus, 1758) were tracked in the southeast Caribbean by long range, 30 MHz radio tag with dive‐profile telemetry over 4.6 d, 26 April‐1 May 1995. Over the 295‐km track, average speed was 0.7 m/sec (2.6 km/h). Of 158 dives (defined as submer...