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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5316 – Residency

7th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5316
SEAK-5316 Confirmed in the catalog @26954
Jul 24 – Aug 13, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jul – Aug 2025

136 m
Deepest dive
5:36
Longest dive
37
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
20
Deepest dive on record
136 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 24, 2025157 m13.7°C136 m
Jul 25, 202554 m12.8°C44 m
Aug 3, 2025102 m14.0°C81 m
Aug 13, 2025203 m13.5°C100 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 24, 2025 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 136 m (modelled)Jul 24Jul 25, 2025 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 13, 2025 — seafloor 203 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

136 m
Deepest dive
5:36
Longest dive
37
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
20
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150136 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (157 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 24, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
157 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
54 m – 203 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.8°C – 14.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 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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