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Data for: Whale Sharks Do It Deeper: Extension of Known Depth Range for Rhincodon typus from Satellite Telemetry Data in the Coral Sea, Australia

James Cook University
Miller, Ingo ; Erdmann, Mark ; Lay, Kevin ; Pierce, Simon ; Fitzpatrick, Richard ; Barnett, Adam
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Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) were equipped with Argos satellite-linked transmitters at Wreck Bay aggregation site in December 2024 to track horizontal and vertical movement and habitat use patterns.

  • Tag mounted to a custom-designed fin-clamp and deployed to free-swimming whale shark's first dorsal fin
  • Animal tagged: 7 m male whale shark
  • Tag type: Wildlife Computers (Wildlife Computers Inc., Redmond, WA, USA) SPLASH10-346C (PTT 266158); This custom calibration extended the depth sensor limit from the standard 2000 m to 2500 m, meaning that depths recorded up to this extended limit fall within the sensor’s specified operating range.

Transmitted data was downloaded through the Wildlife Computer (WC) tag portal and included data from the recently launched Kinéis satellites (https://www.argos-system.org/ (accessed on 9 February 2026)).

Time-series and histogram data were processed using ‘diveMove’ and ‘wcUtils’ R packages, respectively.

State-space modelling was used to interpolate horizontal locations to timestamps of depth time-series records using the ‘aniMotum’ R package.

Depth values are presented taking into account the depth sensor’s accuracy (1% of sensor reading ±2 resolutions; in this case, the SPLASH tag depth sensor’s resolution was 1 m).


Software/equipment used to create/collect the data:

  • WC Tag Agent
  • WC MK10 Host
  • MS Windows .csv files

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data:

RStudio, R

Created: 09 02 2026

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Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Marine and Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | biologging | dive behaviour | dive depth | movement ecology | rhicodon typus | satellite telemetry | vertical movement ecology |

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