Eyes in the sky: linking satellite oceanography and biotelemetry to explore habitat selection by basking sharks

Table 1 Summary of satellite-tagged basking sharks used in this study

Shark	Tag type	Total length (m)	Date tagged	Duration (days)	Number of Argos positions	Track distance (km)	Mean rate of movement (kmh⁻¹)
B1	SPOT	7.2	18 Jun 05	10	51	152	1.30
B2	SPOT	8.2	3 Jul 05	9	17	132	1.80
B3	SPOT	6.4	3 Jul 05	17	49	256	1.13
B4	SPOT	?	21 Jul 05	36	84	701	1.29
B5	SPOT	7.1	21 Jul 05	17	42	324	1.72
B6	SPOT	5.9	26 Aug 05	45	177	946	1.64
B7	SPOT	7.2	26 Aug 05	8	47	148	2.03
B8	SPOT	6.7	3 Oct 05	5	26	109	2.48
B9	SPOT	6.7	3 Oct 05	9	34	138	1.58
B10	SPOT	8.8	3 Oct 05	7	20	67	1.21
53328	PSAT	7.2	18 Jun 05	79	Depth only
53329	PSAT	8.1	3 Jul 05	98	Depth only
52555	PSAT	?	21 Jul 05	82	Depth only
52566	PSAT	7.7	21 Jul 05	78	Depth only
52561	PSAT	7.1	21 Jul 05	80	Depth only
52556	PSAT	7.3	21 Jul 05	68	Depth only
52560	PSAT	7.0	26 Aug 05	42	Depth only

Data from the PSAT-tagged sharks were only used to describe the water column depth distribution of basking sharks during the study period. The ‘Duration’ column for the PSAT-tagged sharks refers to the number of days used in the depth distribution analysis, and only includes data from the same time period that SPOT-tagged sharks were tracked in the study site.

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