Table 1.

Summary of tracking data for leatherback turtles in the Pacific Ocean.

population	deployment location	deployment years	turtles (n)	mean duration (days)	min. duration (days)	max. duration (days)	mean locations per day (n)
eastern Pacific	Costa Rica	1992–1995	8	47	3	87	0.7
eastern Pacific	Costa Rica	2004–2007	46	300	57	568	2.3
eastern Pacific	Mexico	1993–2003a	26	166	9	480	2.9
western Pacific	Indonesia, California	2005–2007	55	321	22	948b	3.4
total (mean)			135	209			2.3

^aTracks do not include all years.

^bThere are some large gaps in the satellite data for this longest duration track.