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Chatham Strait

SEAK-0973 – Residency

29th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-0973
SEAK-0973 Confirmed in the catalog @16867
Jun 20 – Jul 25, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Jul 2025

51 m
Deepest dive
2:03
Longest dive
38
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
35

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 202549 m11.4°C44 m
Jun 21, 202527 m11.7°C18 m
Jul 21, 202515 m12.9°C12 m
Jul 25, 202576 m12.8°C51 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 20, 2025 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 21, 2025 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 21, 2025 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 25, 2025 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 25

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

Dives

51 m
Deepest dive
2:03
Longest dive
38
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
35
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010051 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (76 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 · Jul 25, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
76 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
15 m – 76 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 12.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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