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Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Smuilen – Residency

5th sighting in Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof
Fluke of Smuilen
Smuilen Confirmed in the catalog @26843
Mar 18 – 29, 2018 · Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof · Mar 2018

49 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
74
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
10

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 18, 201824 m5.6°C21 m
Mar 25, 201824 m5.3°C22 m
Mar 28, 201856 m5.4°C49 m
Mar 29, 201851 m5.6°C37 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 18, 2018 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Mar 18Mar 25, 2018 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Mar 25Mar 28, 2018 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Mar 28Mar 29, 2018 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Mar 29

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

Dives

49 m
Deepest dive
2:04
Longest dive
74
Dives
15 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
10
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255049 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (56 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 · Mar 28, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 56 m
Sea-surface temperature
5.3°C – 5.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 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.

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