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Salish Sea

Big Mama – Residency

24th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Big Mama
Big Mama Confirmed in the catalog @2120
Mar 23 – Jun 27, 2015 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Mar – Jun 2015

133 m
Deepest dive
5:14
Longest dive
150
Dives
Sightings
13
Days between first and last sighting
97

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 23, 2015145 m8.5°C33 m
Mar 24, 2015162 m8.5°C73 m
Mar 31, 2015111 m9.1°C96 m
Apr 26, 201576 m9.7°C68 m
May 16, 201563 m9.7°C58 m
May 25, 2015216 m13.6°C110 m
May 29, 2015219 m15.3°C77 m
May 30, 2015150 m14.5°C133 m
Jun 12, 201526 m11.0°C14 m
Jun 13, 201549 m10.6°C33 m
Jun 14, 2015111 m10.8°C94 m
Jun 19, 201522 m11.9°C20 m
Jun 27, 201526 m12.8°C23 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 23, 2015 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Mar 23Mar 24, 2015 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Mar 31, 2015 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Apr 26, 2015 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Apr 26May 16, 2015 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)May 25, 2015 — seafloor 216 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)May 29, 2015 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 29May 30, 2015 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 133 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Jun 13, 2015 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2015 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Jun 19, 2015 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jun 27, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 27

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

Dives

133 m
Deepest dive
5:14
Longest dive
150
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
13
Sightings
97
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150133 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (150 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 30, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
150 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 13 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 219 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.5°C – 15.3°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 13 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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