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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5288 – Residency

9th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5288
SEAK-5288 Confirmed in the catalog @18419
Jun 8 – Sep 16, 2023 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Sep 2023

43 m
Deepest dive
1:56
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
100

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 8, 202363 m—30 m
Jun 9, 202346 m—42 m
Jun 21, 202343 m—29 m
Sep 16, 2023144 m—43 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 8, 2023 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jun 8Jun 9, 2023 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 21, 2023 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jun 21Sep 16, 2023 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

43 m
Deepest dive
1:56
Longest dive
44
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
100
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255043 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (144 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 16, 2023

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

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 144 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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