Florida Leatherback Turtles
We tracked 10 leatherback turtles by satellite from 2 Florida Atlantic Coast nesting beaches for a period ranging from 38 days to more than 454 days. Movement and foraging areas were often coastal, which contrasts with other satellite telemetry studies where leatherbacks are more pelagic. Using kernel home-range estimation we identified the primary internesting residence […]
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Swim speed, dive behavior and movements were recorded for seven female leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) during a single internesting interval near St Croix in the US Virgin Islands. Turtles swam continuously throughout the day and night. There were two swim-speed patterns; the most common was slightly U-shaped,with high speeds at the initiation and conclusion of […]
Deep Rover
In 1985 HSWRI was part of the team that tested the Deep Rover at San Clemente Island, California. This pilot project was coordinated by Sylvia Earle who previously founded Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technology with British engineer Graham Hawkes in the early 1980s. Together they designed the submersible Deep Rover, a vehicle capable of […]