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Other Marine Applications	Technologies ▼ Products ▼
Wildlife Computers tags have long been used by operators of long-line and trawl fishing vessels to confirm the sink rates and depth of their gear. We welcome the opportunity to discuss other uses of our family of tags in marine applications.

Technologies

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Archival Tags [more info]

Wildlife Computers archival tags are designed to collect and record data on the swimming behavior of marine animals. Between the various models, you can sample depth, environmental temperature, stomach temperature, and light level. Light level can be used for determining geographic location on a coarse scale. Time is implicitly encoded with the stored data.

• Flexible user-programmable data sampling regimes.
• Data can be sampled and stored from once a second to once every 255 minutes.
• Mk9 archival tags can be programmed to collect light levels to be used for location calculation. PC-based software that estimates dawn and dusk times and calculates location based upon those times is provided with the tag order.
• Tags store 64 million readings as standard.
• Memory is non-volatile so collected data will not be lost even if the battery goes flat.
• Collected data are easily downloaded to a PC by the user.

Products

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Smart Position or Temperature Transmitting Tag (SPOT5) [more info]

The SPOT5 tag is our smallest Argos transmitter, other than the AC1 (which is designed for avian applications). It is designed specifically for the marine environment. The SPOT5 is available in a variety of shapes optimized for deployment on seals, turtles, large and small cetaceans, sharks and other fishes, penguins and large sea birds. The SPOT5’s size and weight also make it suitable for other non-marine applications.

Direct U.S. prices start at $1350 for the 3 x AAA back or head mount configuration. Please contact us for pricing on specific configurations.

Mk9 Archival Tag [more info]

The Mk9 archival tag is designed to study seals, penguins, fish and other marine animals. The Mk9 measures depth, temperature, and light-level, and also differentiates wet or dry conditions. It is suitable for both external attachment and internal implantation.

The standard Mk9 configuration has the depth, temperature, light-level and wet/dry sensors mounted on the body of the tag, and comes with 64 Mbytes (minimum) data storage. Optionally, for implantable applications, the light level and/or a second temperature sensor can be mounted on a sensor stalk. A third option is an external fast-response thermistor, mounted on the body of the tag.

Direct U.S. prices start at $950 for the three standard configurations shown on the Mk9 product page. Please contact us for pricing on other configurations.