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Chatham Strait

Euphausiia – Residency

11th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Euphausiia
Euphausiia Confirmed in the catalog @16822
May 18 – Jul 21, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, thick with herring

Green water, fat herring, my kind of long-running arrangement.

101 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
63

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 18, 2026331 m7.8°C101 m
May 21, 2026333 m8.0°C90 m
Jul 21, 2026243 m13.1°C48 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 18, 2026 — seafloor 331 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)May 18May 21, 2026 — seafloor 333 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)May 21Jul 21, 2026 — seafloor 243 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 21

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
30
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
63
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 (331 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 · May 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
331 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
243 m – 333 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.8°C – 13.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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