Regab - Gabon 2007-08: Mayumba, Leatherback Turtles

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Background

Regab is named after a Gabonese beverage. Regab was the second leatherback turtle to be tagged during the 2008 expedition and was 145 cm in length (curved length) and 105 cm in width (curved width). She was tagged with a Kiwisat 202 platform terminal transmitter (PTT) specially designed by SirTrack for attachment to leatherback sea turtles. After satellite tagging she was given rear flipper tags. On the left ASF 14460 and the right ASF 14461.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NOAA's GOES Daily Sea Surface Temperature data.

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