Photo: Trackingwhales Project (2024)
Titanium´s tracking route
June 10, 2025
After 250 days of tracking, transmissions from Titanium´s satellite device stopped. The months over which we tracked this female with calf confirmed the importance of the ocean basin off Patagonia and over the Argentine continental shelf for Southern Right Whales. During her travels, Titanium first bordered the continental slope northwards to the zone off the southern coast of the Province of Buenos Aires, where the continental shelf narrows. From this latitude she turned east-southeast and crossed the slope, entering the ocean basin where she traveled in short, erratic circular patterns, possibly searching for productive areas. She remained in this feeding zone from the beginning of December until mid-February, when she returned to the continental shelf. She has spent these last few months coming and going between 42°S and 45°S degrees Latitude, near the slope. While being tracked, Titanium traveled 17,570 kilometers (10,918 miles).
April 25, 2025
Titanium continues traveling slowly northwards closely following the edge of the continental slope. Titanium is now at the latitude of Peninsula Valdés, in a feeding zone clearly influenced by the productive cold oceanic current from the Malvinas (Falkland Islands).
March 22, 2025
Titanium is the only one of the group of whales now over the continental shelf who explored the deep ocean basin before returning to feed off the coast of Chubut province. She is very close to Neptunium, a few kilometers west from the continental slope.
February 18, 2025
Titanium, a mother with calf, returned to the continental shelf after utilizing the deep waters of the ocean basin for almost 3 months. In these last weeks she has centered her activity on a productive patch near the continental slope off the coast of Chubut province, in an area close to both Neptunium and Moscovium.
January 14, 2025
In the deep waters of the ocean basin, more than 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) east of Golfo Nuevo, Titanium is moving in a clockwise circle in short, erratic bursts, possibly searching for areas of the ocean that have an abundance of food.
December 22, 2024
Titanium has been constantly traveling since the middle of November. On her migration route, she first followed the continental slope north to the zone where the Argentine continental shelf narrows, off the coast of Buenos Aires province. At that latitude she turned east south-east and crossed the continental slope to enter the deep ocean basin where she has remained since early December.
November 11, 2024
At present Titanium is over the continental slope and continues traveling slowly northwards, bordering the Argentine continental shelf. In this area there is an upwelling of the cold bottom waters which favor the primary productivity and multiplication of the prey on which these whales feed.
November 3, 2024
During their stay inside the gulf, Titanium and her calf traveled predominantly within the coastal areas of Golfo Nuevo. They began their migratory travels towards the continental slope on October 25th, after having been tracked for 45 days.
October 17, 2024
A month after being tagged, Titanium and her calf continue traveling in coastal areas of Golfo Nuevo, utilizing predominantly the northern, western and southwestern sectors of the breeding area.