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Chatham Strait

Acildour – Residency

16th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Acildour
Acildour Confirmed in the catalog @18486
May 31 – Sep 17, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, Full Season

Herring thick, current sweet, caught on camera more than once this summer.

73 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
108

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 2026272 m8.5°C51 m
Aug 29, 2026104 m14.2°C45 m
Aug 30, 2026284 m14.2°C73 m
Sep 17, 202656 m—7 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 31, 2026 — seafloor 272 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)May 31Aug 29, 2026 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2026 — seafloor 284 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Aug 30Sep 17, 2026 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)Sep 17

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

Dives

73 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
24
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
108
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010073 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (284 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 · Aug 30, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
284 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 284 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 14.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 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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