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Salish Sea

Valiant – Residency

35th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Valiant
Valiant Confirmed in the catalog @11008
May 19 – Aug 31, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Aug 2022

144 m
Deepest dive
5:05
Longest dive
103
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
105

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 19, 202273 m10.6°C29 m
May 25, 2022174 m11.7°C42 m
Jul 13, 2022399 m20.4°C48 m
Jul 18, 2022169 m10.5°C79 m
Jul 19, 2022141 m11.3°C75 m
Jul 19, 2022157 m11.3°C144 m
Jul 21, 2022175 m11.6°C51 m
Aug 14, 2022399 m19.1°C97 m
Aug 31, 2022172 m20.8°C104 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 19, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)May 19May 25, 2022 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)May 25Jul 13, 2022 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 13Jul 18, 2022 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 19, 2022 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 19, 2022 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 21, 2022 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 14, 2022 — seafloor 399 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 31, 2022 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Aug 31

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

Dives

144 m
Deepest dive
5:05
Longest dive
103
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
105
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150144 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (157 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 · Jul 19, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
157 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.3°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 399 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C – 20.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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