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Chatham Strait

Casper – Residency

34th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Casper
Casper Confirmed in the catalog @26833
Jun 25 – Sep 11, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Sep 2025

99 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
95
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
77

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 25, 202544 m11.0°C32 m
Jul 10, 202561 m12.8°C33 m
Jul 14, 202537 m13.1°C29 m
Jul 17, 20254 m12.0°C3 m
Aug 16, 2025139 m14.8°C99 m
Aug 18, 202511 m14.1°C9 m
Aug 19, 2025103 m14.2°C44 m
Sep 8, 2025108 m14.3°C83 m
Sep 11, 2025154 m12.9°C75 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 25, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 61 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 14, 2025 — seafloor 37 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 3 m (modelled)Jul 17Aug 16, 2025 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 18, 2025 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Aug 19Sep 8, 2025 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 11, 2025 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

99 m
Deepest dive
3:01
Longest dive
95
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
77
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010099 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (139 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 16, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
139 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 154 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 14.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 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.

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