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Salish Sea

Fortune – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Fortune
Fortune Confirmed in the catalog @24037
Aug 18 – Sep 8, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2019

123 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
75
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 18, 2019122 m—37 m
Aug 19, 2019170 m—72 m
Aug 20, 2019135 m—103 m
Aug 22, 2019139 m—61 m
Aug 26, 2019170 m—123 m
Sep 8, 2019177 m—95 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 18, 2019 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2019 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2019 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 22, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 26, 2019 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 8, 2019 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

123 m
Deepest dive
4:51
Longest dive
75
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
21
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150123 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (170 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 26, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
170 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
122 m – 177 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 6 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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