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STRETCH UPDATES - COHORT 3

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    Map: Cohort II Current Locations  &  Map: Cohort III Current Locations Map: Cohort II and III Combined STRETCH RESOURCES AND INFORMATION RECENT 'STRETCH' PUBLICATIONS  Multi-decade northward shift  &   Promise or peril in a warming ocean Mock Tag Attachment- Does the attached satellite tag interfer with the growth of the turtle?       'Godzilla' El Niñ o Predicted for 2026 Youtube Explanation of Godzilla El Niño May 12 , 2026 To get an idea about what Cohort III turtles are doing out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, I took a look at the three loggerheads that are equipped with dive recording Splash 10 tags.  These tags record and calculate the percent of time spent at each depth bin (1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 80 meters depth) during four UTC time intervals labeled as 0000 h, 0600 h, 1200 h and 1800 h.  These UTC times represent the subsequent 6 hours of diving behavior ...