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Salish Sea

Westerly – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Westerly
Westerly Confirmed in the catalog @23933
Aug 19 – 27, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug 2019

105 m
Deepest dive
4:05
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
8
Deepest dive on record
105 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 19, 2019172 m—72 m
Aug 20, 2019135 m—101 m
Aug 22, 2019139 m—34 m
Aug 25, 2019154 m—69 m
Aug 27, 2019115 m—105 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 19, 2019 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2019 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 22, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 25Aug 27, 2019 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

105 m
Deepest dive
4:05
Longest dive
54
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150105 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (115 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 27, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m – 172 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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