Fig. 3

Simulation results to test the effect of RDW tag dive summary and transmission regimes on data recovery. Dives were simulated for an animal making relatively short-duration dives (e.g., humpback whales; A) and long-duration dives (e.g., blue whales; B). Dive summary messages were assumed to have been transmitted every 60 s during six 1-h periods (purple horizontal bars) scheduled to coincide with the greatest chance of a predicted satellite pass (C). Dive summaries were assumed to have been received if a satellite was predicted to be overhead when the message was transmitted