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Salish Sea

Hale-Bopp – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Hale-Bopp
Hale-Bopp Confirmed in the catalog @22295
Aug 31 – Oct 18, 2018 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Oct 2018

189 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
48
Deepest dive on record
189 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 31, 2018210 m11.7°C189 m
Sep 14, 2018185 m9.8°C99 m
Sep 16, 2018107 m11.1°C30 m
Oct 16, 2018177 m10.4°C60 m
Oct 18, 2018128 m10.7°C83 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 31, 2018 — seafloor 210 m (measured), deepest dive 189 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 14, 2018 — seafloor 185 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 16, 2018 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 16Oct 16, 2018 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 18, 2018 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

189 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
52
Dives
33 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
48
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200189 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (210 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 31, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
210 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.7°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
107 m – 210 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.8°C – 11.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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