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Antarctic Peninsula

Ginger Sparkle – Residency

12th sighting in Antarctic Peninsula
Fluke of Ginger Sparkle
Ginger Sparkle Confirmed in the catalog @12173
Dec 31, 2023 – Feb 10, 2024 · Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula · Dec 2023 – Feb 2024

148 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
41
Deepest dive on record
148 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 31, 2023108 m—86 m
Jan 4, 2024-73 m——
Jan 9, 2024158 m—124 m
Feb 4, 2024258 m—148 m
Feb 9, 2024225 m—105 m
Feb 10, 202470 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 31, 2023 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Dec 31Jan 4, 2024 — seafloor -73 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jan 4Jan 9, 2024 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Jan 9Feb 4, 2024 — seafloor 258 m (measured), deepest dive 148 m (modelled)Feb 4Feb 9, 2024 — seafloor 225 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Feb 9Feb 10, 2024 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Feb 10

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

Dives

148 m
Deepest dive
5:20
Longest dive
50
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
41
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150148 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (258 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 · Feb 4, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
258 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-73 m – 258 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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