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Chatham Strait

Ghost – Residency

11th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Ghost
Ghost Confirmed in the catalog @24669
Jun 9 – Aug 24, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Aug 2025

61 m
Deepest dive
2:27
Longest dive
117
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
76

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 9, 202521 m10.1°C18 m
Jun 21, 202557 m13.2°C52 m
Jul 16, 20254 m12.1°C4 m
Jul 21, 202515 m12.9°C13 m
Jul 25, 202547 m12.7°C43 m
Aug 6, 202541 m14.3°C29 m
Aug 12, 202517 m13.8°C14 m
Aug 23, 202572 m14.3°C32 m
Aug 24, 202586 m15.1°C61 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 9, 2025 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Jun 9Jun 21, 2025 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 16, 2025 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 21, 2025 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 25, 2025 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 6, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 12, 2025 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 23, 2025 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 24, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Aug 24

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

Dives

61 m
Deepest dive
2:27
Longest dive
117
Dives
14 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
76
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010061 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (86 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 24, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
86 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.1°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 86 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.1°C – 15.1°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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