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Salish Sea

Nalu – Residency

10th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Nalu
Nalu Confirmed in the catalog @14514
Aug 12 – Sep 24, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2019

101 m
Deepest dive
5:09
Longest dive
64
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
43

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 12, 2019149 m—41 m
Aug 18, 2019167 m—81 m
Aug 19, 2019176 m—68 m
Aug 23, 2019178 m—63 m
Sep 10, 201919 m—16 m
Sep 11, 2019172 m—101 m
Sep 24, 2019145 m—89 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 12, 2019 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 18, 2019 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2019 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 23, 2019 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 10, 2019 — seafloor 19 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 11, 2019 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 24, 2019 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Sep 24

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
5:09
Longest dive
64
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
43
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150101 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (172 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 11, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
172 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
19 m – 178 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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