A dataset containing coordinates for 10 great white sharks near Guadulope Island, Mexico, including depth.
Format
A data frame with 322 rows and 10 variables:
- shark
shark ID
- date_hour
date and hour
- obs
observations
- n
nunmber of observations within original time increment
- mean_depth
mean depth in meters
- lat
latitude
- lng
longitude
- mean_shore_distance
mean distance from shore in meters
- length
length of shark in meters
- sex
sex of shark
Details
Guadulope Island, off the coast of Mexico, is renown for its ecotourism around great white shark cage diving. The data was included because of the depth variable. The original dataset was +28,000k observations with the tracking device giving a reading nearly 20 times a minute. Here, the data were summarized to the hour.
References
Santana-Morales, O., Hoyos-Padilla, E. M., Medellín-Ortíz, A., Sepulveda, C., Beas-Luna, R., Aquino-Baleytó, M., ... & Castillo-Géniz, J. L. (2021). How much is too much? A carrying capacity study of white shark cage diving in Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Marine Policy, 131, 104588.
Examples
white_shark
#> # A tibble: 322 × 10
#> shark date_hour obs n mean_depth lat lng mean_shore_distance length
#> <fct> <chr> <int> <int> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 WS1 2015-09-… 1 479 16.0 29.1 -118. 282. 4
#> 2 WS1 2015-09-… 2 374 1.71 29.1 -118. 454. 4
#> 3 WS1 2015-09-… 3 680 36.0 29.1 -118. 509. 4
#> 4 WS1 2015-09-… 4 1073 22.4 29.1 -118. 921. 4
#> 5 WS1 2015-09-… 5 1027 8.96 29.1 -118. 396. 4
#> 6 WS1 2015-09-… 6 971 17.5 29.1 -118. 717. 4
#> 7 WS1 2015-09-… 7 532 15.0 29.1 -118. 345. 4
#> 8 WS1 2015-09-… 8 133 1.93 29.1 -118. 857. 4
#> 9 WS1 2015-09-… 9 92 4.84 29.1 -118. 330. 4
#> 10 WS1 2015-09-… 10 205 5.85 29.1 -118. 279. 4
#> # ℹ 312 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: sex <chr>