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Salish Sea

Checkmate – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Checkmate
Checkmate Confirmed in the catalog @24175
Jun 16 – Jul 3, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Jul 2024

260 m
Deepest dive
9:26
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
17
Deepest dive on record
260 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 16, 2024257 m—85 m
Jun 16, 2024158 m—15 m
Jun 17, 2024204 m—21 m
Jun 17, 2024396 m—244 m
Jul 1, 2024382 m—260 m
Jul 3, 2024275 m—173 m
Jul 3, 202457 m—40 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 16, 2024 — seafloor 257 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 16, 2024 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Jun 16Jun 17, 2024 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 17, 2024 — seafloor 396 m (measured), deepest dive 244 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 1, 2024 — seafloor 382 m (measured), deepest dive 260 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 173 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Jul 3

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

Dives

260 m
Deepest dive
9:26
Longest dive
106
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
17
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300260 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (382 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 1, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
382 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
57 m – 396 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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