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Salish Sea

Aerie – Residency

14th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Aerie
Aerie Confirmed in the catalog @14386
Jul 28 – Nov 25, 2018 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Nov 2018

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
120

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 28, 201849 m12.3°C—
Aug 22, 2018108 m12.5°C—
Sep 13, 2018187 m9.7°C—
Sep 14, 2018190 m9.8°C—
Sep 26, 201851 m11.2°C—
Oct 12, 201849 m10.8°C—
Oct 13, 2018144 m10.6°C—
Oct 14, 201849 m10.9°C—
Nov 20, 2018136 m9.9°C—
Nov 25, 2018142 m8.8°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 28, 2018 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Aug 22, 2018 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 22Sep 13, 2018 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 13Sep 14, 2018 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 14Sep 26, 2018 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 26Oct 12, 2018 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 12Oct 13, 2018 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 13Oct 14, 2018 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 14Nov 20, 2018 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 20Nov 25, 2018 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 25

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
10
Sightings
120
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 · Nov 25, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
142 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 190 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.8°C – 12.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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