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Salish Sea

Fang – Residency

19th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Fang
Fang Confirmed in the catalog @22372
Aug 17 – Sep 13, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2024

140 m
Deepest dive
3:30
Longest dive
16
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
27
Deepest dive on record
140 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 202476 m12.6°C58 m
Aug 21, 2024176 m10.6°C140 m
Sep 13, 202421 m13.2°C18 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 17, 2024 — seafloor 76 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 21, 2024 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 13, 2024 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Sep 13

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

Dives

140 m
Deepest dive
3:30
Longest dive
16
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
27
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150140 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (176 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 21, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
176 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 176 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C – 13.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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.

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