Animation of the pitch metric to identify search events for Hawaiian monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands

This is an animation of the Pitch Metric that was used to identify search events for Hawaiian monk seals. The animation shows pitch (bottom figure) for one complete dive with concurrent dive depth (middle) and video footage (top). Video footage shows seal RW02 foraging off the coast of Kauai. The orange line across the pitch figure is our threshold for identifying search events (70 degrees). Time is along the X axis in both figures with depth and pitch on the Y axes, respectively.