Table 2.

Foraging dive characteristics for Rice's whale dives with depth > 10 m, mean ± se.

	Dives with lunge	Dive depth (m)	Submerged time (s)	Descent rate (m/s)	Descent speed (m/s)	Ascent rate (m/s)	Ascent speed (m/s)	# Breaths/dive	Breathing rate	# Lunges/dive
Milky Way	92	206.8 ± 6.6	521.7 ± 21.0	0.9 ± 0.004	2.0 ± 0.003	1.6 ± 0.005	2.2 ± 0.002	8.6 ± 0.5	2.3 ± 0.1	1.3 ± 0.06
'Edna'	96	172.5 ± 4.6	378.9 ± 10.2	2.0 ± 0.01	2.7 ± 0.004	1.9 ± 0.01	2.5 ± 0.004	11.8 ± 1.3	5.8 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 0.05

Note that descent/ascent rate is change in depth over time, while speed is the average speed during descent/ascent.