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Salish Sea

Nalu – Residency

21st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Nalu
Nalu Confirmed in the catalog @14514
Aug 16 – Sep 20, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2024

111 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
122
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
35
Deepest dive on record
111 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 202483 m—71 m
Aug 30, 202487 m—77 m
Aug 31, 202444 m—34 m
Sep 1, 2024224 m—111 m
Sep 1, 2024102 m—31 m
Sep 7, 202474 m—31 m
Sep 7, 202464 m—47 m
Sep 7, 202457 m—48 m
Sep 20, 2024154 m—34 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 16, 2024 — seafloor 83 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 30, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 30Aug 31, 2024 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 1, 2024 — seafloor 224 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 1, 2024 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 20, 2024 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 20

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

Dives

111 m
Deepest dive
3:18
Longest dive
122
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
35
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (224 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 1, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
224 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 224 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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