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Salish Sea

Spindrift – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Spindrift
Spindrift Confirmed in the catalog @27022
Aug 17 – Oct 12, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Oct 2020

111 m
Deepest dive
3:53
Longest dive
50
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 2020150 m12.9°C53 m
Aug 23, 2020173 m11.0°C111 m
Sep 1, 2020132 m11.1°C32 m
Sep 8, 2020172 m11.7°C37 m
Sep 28, 2020163 m13.0°C95 m
Oct 12, 202072 m10.2°C56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 17, 2020 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 23, 2020 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 1, 2020 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 1Sep 8, 2020 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 28, 2020 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 28Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

111 m
Deepest dive
3:53
Longest dive
50
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150111 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (173 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 23, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
173 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
72 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 13.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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