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Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage

Flame – Residency

197th sighting in Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage
Fluke of Flame
Flame Confirmed in the catalog @13225
May 13 – Dec 1, 2021 · Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage

Summer in the Bay

Seven months of perfect feeding, every dive bringing me back home.

98 m
Deepest dive
4:06
Longest dive
579
Dives
Sightings
42
Days between first and last sighting
202

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 13, 202199 m5.8°C90 m
May 17, 202151 m7.0°C35 m
May 17, 202168 m7.0°C54 m
May 18, 202191 m7.3°C57 m
May 23, 202190 m7.9°C47 m
May 24, 2021117 m8.1°C87 m
May 27, 202149 m8.1°C36 m
Jun 12, 202183 m9.3°C53 m
Jun 14, 2021108 m9.6°C54 m
Jun 18, 2021126 m10.4°C17 m
Jun 23, 2021156 m9.9°C46 m
Jun 30, 2021110 m11.1°C65 m
Jul 1, 202171 m11.2°C43 m
Jul 3, 2021119 m10.8°C92 m
Jul 4, 202149 m11.1°C40 m
Jul 4, 202190 m10.9°C39 m
Jul 5, 2021110 m11.4°C49 m
Jul 7, 2021101 m11.1°C40 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 13, 2021 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)May 13May 17, 2021 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)May 17, 2021 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)May 18, 2021 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)May 23, 2021 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 24, 2021 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)May 27, 2021 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2021 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jun 12Jun 14, 2021 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 18, 2021 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jun 23, 2021 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 30, 2021 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 1, 2021 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 3, 2021 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 4, 2021 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 5, 2021 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 7, 2021 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 15, 2021 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 17, 2021 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2021 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jul 22, 2021 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 25, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2021 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2021 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 31, 2021 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2021 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 7, 2021 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 15, 2021 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 18, 2021 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 19, 2021 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 21, 2021 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2021 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 26, 2021 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2021 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 31, 2021 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2021 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 7, 2021 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 19, 2021 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 20, 2021 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Dec 1, 2021 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:06
Longest dive
579
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
42
Sightings
202
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (155 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 17, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
155 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 42 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 156 m
Sea-surface temperature
4.7°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 42 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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