Hey folks,
Well this is a strange little scene...
Attached is a map of locations for both Wadadli
and Louise for the past
week or so. It appears that they both have
moved onto Jeffery's ledge
and are rotating around between the northern
and southern edges. I am
not sure what the chances are of two tagged
seals just bumping into each
other in the Gulf of Maine, but we are getting
close. It appears that
Louise and Wadadli may have been as close as
several miles from each
other at one point. Louise appears to be very
much keeping on the
shallower part of the bank, while Wadadli has
been keeping mostly in
deeper water several miles from the northern
edge of the bank. As
location data from yesterday, they had switched
locations,with Wadadli
moving to the south end of the bank and Louise
heading up to the north.
The assumption here is that both of these seals
are there looking for
food. In this case it would also seem to indicate
that someone
(probably Wadadli) is not eating their usual prey.
This is one of those
times you really wish you had some TDR data ...
but I will see if I can
check the temperature data for the two tags to
see if there is some
similarity (that might give us a clue if they are
staying around water
that is the same temperature)
curiouser and curiouser
LOUISE DATA:
01657 Date : 23.02.03 15:11:50 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.123N Lon1 :
70.067W
01657 Date : 23.02.03 16:52:31 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.487N Lon1 :
69.130W
01657 Date : 23.02.03 18:28:01 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.116N Lon1 :
70.070W
01657 Date : 23.02.03 22:37:53 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.117N Lon1 :
70.091W
01657 Date : 24.02.03 01:21:40 LC : 2 IQ :
66Lat1 : 43.118N Lon1 :
70.049W
01657 Date : 24.02.03 09:45:42 LC : A IQ :
08Lat1 : 43.151N Lon1 :
70.043W
01657 Date : 24.02.03 10:44:12 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.163N Lon1 :
70.045W
01657 Date : 24.02.03 10:57:50 LC : A IQ :
08Lat1 : 43.166N Lon1 :
70.034W
01657 Date : 24.02.03 11:25:16 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.175N Lon1 :
70.030W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 16:17:46 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.143N Lon1 :
70.026W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 16:23:19 LC : A IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.155N Lon1 :
70.351W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 16:34:14 LC : A IQ :
08Lat1 : 43.144N Lon1 :
70.035W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 17:57:58 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.136N Lon1 :
69.999W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 21:54:19 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.127N Lon1 :
70.042W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 22:02:27 LC : 2 IQ :
68Lat1 : 43.141N Lon1 :
70.041W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 23:33:57 LC : A IQ :
08Lat1 : 43.143N Lon1 :
70.016W
01657 Date : 25.02.03 23:42:45 LC : A IQ :
04Lat1 : 43.571N Lon1 :
70.043W
01657 Date : 26.02.03 11:51:57 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.165N Lon1 :
70.006W
01657 Date : 26.02.03 12:00:08 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.159N Lon1 :
70.013W
01657 Date : 26.02.03 13:28:57 LC : 3 IQ :
66Lat1 : 43.139N Lon1 :
70.030W
WADADLI DATA:
01656 Date : 23.02.03 20:01:41 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.120N Lon1 :
70.048W
01656 Date : 23.02.03 20:46:00 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.103N Lon1 :
69.979W
01656 Date : 23.02.03 20:59:22 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.105N Lon1 :
69.884W
01656 Date : 23.02.03 21:32:58 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.211N Lon1 :
68.497W
01656 Date : 23.02.03 22:27:00 LC : 0 IQ :
58Lat1 : 43.102N Lon1 :
69.992W
01656 Date : 23.02.03 22:42:07 LC : 2 IQ :
66Lat1 : 43.108N Lon1 :
69.981W
01656 Date : 24.02.03 00:02:24 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.085N Lon1 :
70.016W
01656 Date : 24.02.03 08:15:23 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.048N Lon1 :
70.145W
01656 Date : 24.02.03 10:52:57 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.020N Lon1 :
70.279W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 14:42:00 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 42.944N Lon1 :
63.288W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 16:14:37 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.145N Lon1 :
69.744W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 16:38:41 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.097N Lon1 :
70.457W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 17:57:52 LC : A IQ :
00Lat1 : 42.831N Lon1 :
69.319W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 19:38:54 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.008N Lon1 :
70.139W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 20:19:57 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 31.248N Lon1 :
87.289W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 21:55:55 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.031N Lon1 :
70.138W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 21:55:55 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 43.026N Lon1 :
70.107W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 23:35:46 LC : 2 IQ :
68Lat1 : 43.000N Lon1 :
70.099W
01656 Date : 25.02.03 23:38:53 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 42.997N Lon1 :
70.087W
01656 Date : 26.02.03 10:43:35 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 42.902N Lon1 :
70.193W
01656 Date : 26.02.03 11:49:28 LC : B IQ :
00Lat1 : 42.900N Lon1 :
70.247W
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