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Pesto

Green Sea Turtle

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Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) is the marine animal followed in the study “Pesto · Green Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 26 Oct 2026, 2:02 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 Green Sea Turtle.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Pesto · Green Sea Turtle — OCEARCH animal: 255 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 15 Sept 2026, 9:37 pm → 26 Oct 2026, 2:02 am · 800 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
405 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
29 min
Fastest segment
1,385,882.9 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 860 flags
  • source qc · 800 flags across 800 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.
  • implausible displacement rate · 60 flags across 111 reports
    Displacement of 0 km in 0.0 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos26 Oct 2026, 2:02 am26 Oct 2026, 2:02 amReporting800

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References

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

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:35 pm 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.

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