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Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Whetpeet – Residency

5th sighting in Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof
Fluke of Whetpeet
Whetpeet Confirmed in the catalog @26688
May 8 – Jun 19, 2023 · Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof · May – Jun 2023

63 m
Deepest dive
2:40
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 8, 202343 m—36 m
May 9, 202378 m—24 m
May 15, 202378 m—41 m
May 15, 202378 m—63 m
Jun 19, 2023145 m—23 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 8, 2023 — seafloor 43 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)May 8May 9, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)May 9May 15, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 15May 15, 2023 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)May 15Jun 19, 2023 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 19

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

Dives

63 m
Deepest dive
2:40
Longest dive
54
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
42
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010063 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (78 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 · May 15, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
43 m – 145 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 7.0 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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