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Wassaw Will

Loggerhead Sea Turtle

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Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) is the marine animal followed in the study “Wassaw Will · Loggerhead Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 21 July 2026, 10:49 am. This is an OCEARCH animal. This is a published observation, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this Loggerhead Sea Turtle.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Wassaw Will · Loggerhead Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal: 800 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 11 July 2026, 2:54 am → 21 July 2026, 10:49 am · 800 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
897 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
13 min
Fastest segment
5,998,470.4 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 969 flags
  • source qc · 800 flags across 800 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 169 flags across 311 reports
    Displacement of 7 km in 0.2 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos21 July 2026, 10:49 am21 July 2026, 10:49 amReporting800

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References

  1. Wassaw Will is an OCEARCH animal. Tracking data courtesy of OCEARCH (ocearch.org/tracker). link

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 11:43 am under publication policy policy:atn-erddap:default@1,policy:crossref:metadata@1,policy:gbif:default@1,policy:motus@1,policy:obis:default@1,policy:ocearch:default@1,policy:otn-geoserver:default@1,policy:stc:default@1.