Showing posts with label Clyde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clyde. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Betty - December 18

Betty remains in the same area she has for more than 3 weeks, near the 1,000 m contour at the edge of the shelf. She has made one dive to 800-1,000 m - the deepest dive ever documented for this species (perhaps approaching the sea floor on this occasion), and double the deepest dive recorded for Clyde. Most of her dives continue to be to depths less than 50 m. One dive lasted 11-15 min, but most contrinue to be less than 4 min in duration. After more than 19,000 transmissions, battery voltage still looks good.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Betty - November 20

Betty continues to the south along the continental shelf edge.

Will she follow Clyde's path around the tip of Florida?

Will she turn back into the Gulf for another round?

Will she go to the Caribbean?


Stay tuned.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Betty - November 11

Betty continues to the east along the edge of the continental shelf south of Louisiana. Betty's tracking has now continued for twice as long as was possible for Clyde, the last Risso dolphin tracked.