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Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Patches – Residency

8th sighting in Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay
Fluke of Patches
Patches Confirmed in the catalog @13435
Jun 8 – Aug 13, 2018 · Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay

Kenai Fjords & Resurrection Bay · Jun – Aug 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
66

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 2018147 m9.7°C—
Jun 9, 2018289 m10.3°C—
Jun 25, 2018159 m10.3°C—
Jul 13, 2018166 m12.8°C—
Aug 13, 2018289 m12.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 8, 2018 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 8Jun 9, 2018 — seafloor 289 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 9Jun 25, 2018 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 25Jul 13, 2018 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13Aug 13, 2018 — seafloor 289 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
66
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 13, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
289 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
147 m – 289 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C – 12.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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