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Salish Sea

Fiesta – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Fiesta
Fiesta Confirmed in the catalog @27067
Aug 7 – 18, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug 2024

83 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
11

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 7, 202487 m12.5°C58 m
Aug 7, 202489 m12.6°C47 m
Aug 7, 202495 m12.5°C48 m
Aug 18, 2024119 m12.3°C83 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 7, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 7, 2024 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 7Aug 18, 2024 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Aug 18

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

Dives

83 m
Deepest dive
3:41
Longest dive
51
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010083 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (119 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, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
119 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 119 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C – 12.6°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 7.0 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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