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Salish Sea

Vanta – Residency

21st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Vanta
Vanta Confirmed in the catalog @22317
Jul 15 – Aug 26, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2020

138 m
Deepest dive
5:03
Longest dive
28
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 2020204 m12.1°C110 m
Jul 16, 202078 m11.9°C59 m
Aug 23, 2020173 m11.0°C138 m
Aug 26, 202017 m14.9°C15 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2020 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 16, 2020 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 16Aug 23, 2020 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 138 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 26, 2020 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Aug 26

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

Dives

138 m
Deepest dive
5:03
Longest dive
28
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
42
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150138 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (173 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 23, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
173 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 204 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 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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