Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
Chatham Strait

Polyglottis – Residency

11th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Polyglottis
Polyglottis Confirmed in the catalog @18444
Aug 7 – 12, 2024 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Aug 2024

95 m
Deepest dive
5:22
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
5

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →
SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 7, 202432 m—29 m
Aug 10, 2024104 m—95 m
Aug 12, 202479 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 10, 2024 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 12, 2024 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 12

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

Dives

95 m
Deepest dive
5:22
Longest dive
58
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
5
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →

Dive profile

modelled
05010095 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (104 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.

Unlock with Risa Deep

Place

Where this happened · Aug 10, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
104 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 104 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors

Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Happywhale runs on donations: support Happywhale →

Breach is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Happywhale or GBIF.