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Salish Sea

Shearwater – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Shearwater
Shearwater Confirmed in the catalog @104611
May 30 – Oct 12, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Oct 2024

148 m
Deepest dive
6:40
Longest dive
112
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
135

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 30, 202464 m—49 m
May 31, 202448 m—19 m
Aug 7, 2024268 m—147 m
Aug 7, 2024104 m—71 m
Aug 8, 2024163 m—72 m
Aug 10, 202461 m—47 m
Sep 13, 202421 m—17 m
Sep 19, 202474 m—47 m
Sep 20, 2024154 m—92 m
Oct 12, 2024171 m—148 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 30, 2024 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)May 30May 31, 2024 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)May 31Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 268 m (measured), deepest dive 147 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 8, 2024 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 10, 2024 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 10Sep 13, 2024 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 13Sep 19, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 20, 2024 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Sep 20Oct 12, 2024 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 148 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

148 m
Deepest dive
6:40
Longest dive
112
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
135
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150148 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (171 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 · Oct 12, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
171 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 268 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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