Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Dr. Charles iKermit and iRI11

Aloha All-
Here are a few updated maps. The first one is a track from one of the adult males we are tracking on Molokai (RI11 I believe) and the second is some of his diving off Moomomi. We tagged him at La'au but he moved up to the north shore and Kalaupapa.    Kermit also. Last hit was up at Kaena!
Hope you are all well. Sorry about the loss of Mikala. This job certainly isn't easy for any of us.
Charles
Here is the last week (4-4 to 4-11)
RI11 on Molokai from Feb - April

3 comments:

val said...

Dr. Charles,
My husband saw RI11 at Kalaupapa on Good Firday. What sort of depths is he diving?
RI13 was also at Laau Pt last friday, April 9th.
We are headed to LP tomorrow for a trek

val

Charles said...

Aloha-

Those three other brutes we tagged at LP have yet to transmit. Cellphone coverage is pretty scarce down there so we have to patiently wait for them to swim somewhere else for just a day to download their info. The tags can store data for 6 months so we don't need to worry about missing the data, eventually we will get it. It is a little like waiting for Santa to bring your Xmas presents.

Charles said...

Oh yeah, if you do see our boys and can get photos of their instruments that would be great! Or if you just see them, let Tracy or me know. I just want to ensure they are still attached!