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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5369 – Residency

17th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5369
SEAK-5369 Confirmed in the catalog @10962
May 18 – Jun 24, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, Right on Time

Green water, old bends, lungs full of krill and history.

241 m
Deepest dive
9:31
Longest dive
28
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
36
Deepest dive on record
241 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2026331 m7.8°C241 m
Jun 24, 2026132 m11.8°C37 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 18, 2026 — seafloor 331 m (measured), deepest dive 241 m (modelled)May 18Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jun 24

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

Dives

241 m
Deepest dive
9:31
Longest dive
28
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
36
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250241 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (331 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 · May 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
331 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
132 m – 331 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C – 11.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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