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Salish Sea

Cirque – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Cirque
Cirque Confirmed in the catalog @10864
May 15 – Sep 14, 2018 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
122

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 15, 2018277 m15.1°C—
Aug 8, 2018161 m21.0°C—
Aug 10, 2018161 m21.1°C—
Aug 16, 2018242 m18.6°C—
Sep 14, 2018184 m9.8°C—
Sep 14, 2018186 m9.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 15, 2018 — seafloor 277 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)May 15Aug 8, 2018 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 8Aug 10, 2018 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 10Aug 16, 2018 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 16Sep 14, 2018 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 14Sep 14, 2018 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
122
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Sep 14, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
186 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
161 m – 277 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.8°C – 21.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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