Stinky Pete - VIMS Sea Turtle Research Program

A project of VIMS Sea Turtle Research Program.

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Background

Stinky Pete originally stranded in August of 2003 off of Virginia's Eastern shore. Stinky was discovered floating and unable to dive by the U.S. Coast Guard. Stinky Pete received his/her name after getting 'sick' in the cab of the rescue truck (and a rescuer's purse). The Virginia Marine Science Museum rehabilitated Stinky in time for a fall 2003 release from Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. A Ph.D. student from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science placed a Wildlife Computers SDR-T16 satellite tag on Stinky Pete in order to monitor Stinky's fall migration and diving behavior.

**Unfortunately, Stinky Pete's tag has ceased to transmit. Please check out Coral Kate's link for another one of our satellite tagged turtles.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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