The distance is not surprising, animal trackers have shown they routinely travel vast distances in the ocean [1, 2, 3]. All you need is a fluke event, once in

The distance is not surprising, animal trackers have shown they routinely travel vast distances in the ocean [1, 2, 3]. All you need is a fluke event, once in a thousand years where they for some reason make, and survive, this trip (I say thousand to give us some scale, could be actually once in a million years). [1] https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/nukumi https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/nukumi [2] https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/dr-brent https://www.ocearch.org/tracker/detail/dr-brent [3] https://www.wur.nl/en/show/seal-telemetry.htm https://www.wur.nl/en/show/seal-telemetry.htm