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Salish Sea

Vertigo – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Vertigo
Vertigo Confirmed in the catalog @14390
Sep 16 – 24, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep 2019

84 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 16, 2019206 m11.0°C84 m
Sep 20, 201983 m11.6°C45 m
Sep 24, 2019148 m14.5°C60 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 20, 2019 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 24, 2019 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 24

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
24
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
8
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (206 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 · Sep 16, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
206 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
83 m – 206 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 14.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 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 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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