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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5109 – Residency

8th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5109
SEAK-5109 Confirmed in the catalog @14668
Jul 20 – Sep 22, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Late Summer in Chatham Strait

Herring thick, water green, cameras caught me twice — good stretch.

103 m
Deepest dive
3:29
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
64

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 202662 m13.0°C21 m
Sep 22, 2026133 m—103 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 20Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Sep 22

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

Dives

103 m
Deepest dive
3:29
Longest dive
19
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
64
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150103 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (133 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
133 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m – 133 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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