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Salish Sea

Sherwina – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Sherwina
Sherwina Confirmed in the catalog @11390
Aug 22 – Nov 27, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Nov 2022

145 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
97
Deepest dive on record
145 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 22, 2022406 m21.9°C145 m
Aug 29, 2022328 m20.1°C66 m
Sep 24, 202258 m15.8°C51 m
Nov 13, 2022165 m8.6°C68 m
Nov 27, 2022119 m8.4°C37 m
Nov 27, 202273 m8.4°C54 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 22, 2022 — seafloor 406 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 29, 2022 — seafloor 328 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 24, 2022 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 24Nov 13, 2022 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Nov 13Nov 27, 2022 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Nov 27Nov 27, 2022 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Nov 27

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

Dives

145 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
89
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
97
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150145 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (406 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 22, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
406 m
Sea-surface temperature
21.9°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 406 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.4°C – 21.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 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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