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Salish Sea

Blizzard – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Blizzard
Blizzard Confirmed in the catalog @27062
Jul 8 – Sep 20, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2019

135 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
74

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 8, 2019129 m—79 m
Jul 9, 2019166 m—48 m
Jul 10, 201929 m—23 m
Jul 11, 2019128 m—85 m
Jul 12, 2019149 m—93 m
Aug 18, 2019167 m—135 m
Aug 23, 2019178 m—93 m
Sep 14, 2019151 m—129 m
Sep 15, 2019180 m—100 m
Sep 16, 2019206 m—30 m
Sep 20, 2019175 m—80 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 8, 2019 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 9, 2019 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 10, 2019 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 11, 2019 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 12, 2019 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jul 12Aug 18, 2019 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 135 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 23, 2019 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 14, 2019 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 206 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 20, 2019 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Sep 20

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

Dives

135 m
Deepest dive
4:32
Longest dive
106
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
74
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150135 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (167 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 18, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
167 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 206 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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