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Salish Sea

Oracle – Residency

29th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Oracle
Oracle Confirmed in the catalog @22389
Jul 4 – Sep 25, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2022

157 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
83

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 2022152 m11.4°C70 m
Jul 5, 2022139 m11.0°C106 m
Jul 8, 2022157 m12.3°C51 m
Jul 11, 2022175 m11.8°C157 m
Sep 17, 202294 m11.3°C66 m
Sep 20, 202299 m11.7°C38 m
Sep 25, 202244 m11.9°C32 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 4, 2022 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 5, 2022 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 8, 2022 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 11, 2022 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 157 m (modelled)Jul 11Sep 17, 2022 — seafloor 94 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 20, 2022 — seafloor 99 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 25, 2022 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

157 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
106
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
83
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200157 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 · Jul 11, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 175 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 12.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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