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Salish Sea

Cirque – Residency

13th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Cirque
Cirque Confirmed in the catalog @10864
Jun 29 – Aug 6, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2019

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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
38

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 29, 2019124 m16.5°C—
Jun 30, 201989 m16.7°C—
Jul 5, 2019113 m17.4°C—
Jul 12, 2019199 m17.0°C—
Aug 2, 2019492 m17.2°C—
Aug 6, 2019218 m19.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 29, 2019 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 29Jun 30, 2019 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 30Jul 5, 2019 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 5Jul 12, 2019 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 12Aug 2, 2019 — seafloor 492 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 2Aug 6, 2019 — seafloor 218 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 6

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
38
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 · Aug 6, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
218 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 492 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C – 19.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 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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