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Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

HW-MN0401454 – Residency

11th sighting in Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof
Fluke of HW-MN0401454
HW-MN0401454 Confirmed in the catalog @102341
Jul 8 – Aug 7, 2023 · Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof · Jul – Aug 2023

68 m
Deepest dive
3:05
Longest dive
109
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
30
Deepest dive on record
68 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 8, 2023113 m—24 m
Jul 11, 202378 m—51 m
Jul 12, 202378 m—38 m
Jul 14, 202367 m—29 m
Jul 20, 202334 m—30 m
Jul 29, 202378 m—44 m
Jul 30, 202346 m—42 m
Jul 31, 202385 m—45 m
Aug 6, 202378 m—18 m
Aug 6, 2023106 m—48 m
Aug 7, 202380 m—68 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 8, 2023 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 11, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 14, 2023 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 20, 2023 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 29, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 29Jul 30, 2023 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jul 30Jul 31, 2023 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 6, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 6, 2023 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 7

Depth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.

Dives

68 m
Deepest dive
3:05
Longest dive
109
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
30
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010068 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (80 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

Deep

Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 7, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
80 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
34 m – 113 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

Sighting records from Happywhale, published as occurrence data via GBIF. Individual records are licensed CC0 1.0, CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0, depending on the contributor.

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