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Chatham Strait

Chocolate Chip Cookie – Residency

18th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Chocolate Chip Cookie
Chocolate Chip Cookie Confirmed in the catalog @22735
May 31 – Jul 17, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Green Water, Good Company

Early summer in the strait, surrounded by friends the whole stretch through.

71 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
25
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
46

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 2026166 m8.6°C71 m
Jul 9, 202646 m12.5°C36 m
Jul 17, 202685 m13.0°C65 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 31, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)May 31Jul 9, 2026 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 85 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 17

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
25
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
46
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 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 · May 31, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
166 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
46 m – 166 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.6°C – 13.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 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.

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