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Table 3 Summary of fastloc® performance of the G-Pilot tag on Sicklefin devil ray (Mob) and blue sharks (BLU) in the Azores

From: The advantages and challenges of non-invasive towed PILOT tags for free-ranging deep-diving megafauna

ID and deployment duration (h)

Time at 0–1 m (%)

Time (h) at 0–1 m

Total FastLoc counts

FasLoc.h−1 (0–1 m)

FastLoc.h−1 (0-2000 m)

Mob-1 12.3 h

2.6

0.3

9

27.9

0.7

Mob-2 16.0 h

8.2

1.3

18

13.8

1.1

Mob-3 15.1 h

13.0

2.0

22

11.3

1.5

Mob-4 16.4 h

10.6

1.7

17

9.8

1.0

Mob-5 12.9 h

18.4

2.4

5

2.1

0.4

BLU-1 12.5 h

40

5.0

9

1.8

0.7

BLU2 17.5 h

16.0

2.8

9

3.2

0.5

BLU-3 13.5 h

13.1

1.8

7

4.0

0.5

BLU-4 27.9

2.7

0.8

22

9.2

0.8

BLU-5 38.3

17.5

6.6

20

3

0.5

  1. Time at 0–1 m (%)—percent time spent between 0 and 1 m; time (h) at 0–1 m–time spent between 0 and 1 m; total FastLoc counts–number of successful fastloc locations acquired; FastLoc.h−1(0–1 m)—number of successful fastloc locations per hour between 0 and 1 m; FastLoc.h−1(0–2000 m)—total number of successful fastloc locations per hour
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