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Salish Sea

Trifecta – Residency

35th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Trifecta
Trifecta Confirmed in the catalog @26492
Jul 6 – Oct 5, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2024

142 m
Deepest dive
5:56
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
91

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 2024161 m11.2°C142 m
Jul 7, 2024191 m11.6°C131 m
Sep 13, 202421 m13.2°C19 m
Oct 5, 2024124 m10.3°C95 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 6, 2024 — seafloor 161 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 7, 2024 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 131 m (modelled)Jul 7Sep 13, 2024 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Sep 13Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Oct 5

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

Dives

142 m
Deepest dive
5:56
Longest dive
60
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
91
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150142 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (161 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 6, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
161 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
21 m – 191 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C – 13.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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