Well it appears that almost 1 month to the date of release, Notch is back where we let him out. This morning we received several good hits indicating good surface time. He was between 7-8 miles off shore from Virginia Key in about 350-400 feet of water. More monitoring to continue.

Sorry for the missed daily updates but there are have been some recent time constraints imposed on the resource providing maps, so we will only get 2 updates a week now. There has been some talk and concern regarding the close proximity that Notch has had to the Florida coastline or at least the impression given the size of the dot and the map. First, we want to be clear in letting everyone know that Notch has not stranded. Over the course of the past few days, we have been working with various groups to provide a visual sighting on the animals. Although we have manage to see them, we are hoping to be successful and post some pictures if any that we are able to take. That is all for now, more to follow from a text perspective when available.

Although I cannot get our more common map posted right now, the latest position provided as of 12:00pm today puts them still traveling south about 3 miles offshore just south of Hobe Sound. Efforts are underway to get an aerial observation performed to ensure that both animals are still together and in satisfactory health condition.

Notch appears to be maintaining his southerly track. He has had periods of getting as close as 2 miles offshore to about 15 miles offshore within the past 4 days. A possible aerial verification may be set up if he continues on his current track and close to land. Multiple points are being tracked throughout the day to capture the best possible points provided by the tags.

Although there has been some specualtion over the course of the weekend, at approx, 12pm it was confirmed with a "good" point derived from the tag that the animals are about 15 miles off shore heading southeast near Cape Canaveral. Please continue to monitor this site for more information. If the animals do strand, it will also be posted. However, over the past 3 days we can say that although they got as close as about 2 miles offshore, they never did strand but continue to make their way south.