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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5141 – Residency

6th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5141
SEAK-5141 Confirmed in the catalog @22732
Jul 25 – Sep 12, 2021 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jul – Sep 2021

192 m
Deepest dive
5:47
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
50
Deepest dive on record
192 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 2021165 m12.1°C95 m
Jul 26, 202184 m12.9°C62 m
Aug 31, 2021275 m10.2°C192 m
Sep 12, 202140 m11.7°C24 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 25, 2021 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2021 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jul 26Aug 31, 2021 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 192 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 12, 2021 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 12

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

Dives

192 m
Deepest dive
5:47
Longest dive
48
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
50
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200192 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (275 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, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
275 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 275 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 12.9°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 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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