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Salish Sea

Lorax – Residency

15th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lorax
Lorax Confirmed in the catalog @11258
Jul 3 – Aug 30, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2024

177 m
Deepest dive
5:13
Longest dive
68
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
57
Deepest dive on record
177 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 3, 2024282 m—104 m
Aug 5, 2024214 m—177 m
Aug 5, 202458 m—45 m
Aug 30, 2024180 m—63 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 282 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 177 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 30, 2024 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

177 m
Deepest dive
5:13
Longest dive
68
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
57
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200177 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (214 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 · Aug 5, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
214 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 282 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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