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Theresa

Whale Shark

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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) is the marine animal followed in the study “Theresa · Whale Shark — OCEARCH animal”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 26 Oct 2026, 6:17 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 Whale Shark.
Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.
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Theresa · Whale Shark — OCEARCH animal: 10 newly observed reports.

Movement summary

Window 8 Aug 2026, 5:00 pm → 26 Oct 2026, 6:17 am · 120 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
1,090 km
Segments / gaps
4 / 3
Longest gap
20.8 days
Median interval
2 h
Fastest segment
20.2 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 120 flags
  • source qc · 120 flags across 120 reports
    Source QC flags: ocearch_animal.

3 gap(s) longer than the 120 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argossatellite_argos26 Oct 2026, 6:17 am26 Oct 2026, 6:17 amReporting120

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References

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

Generated 26 Oct 2026, 1:34 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.