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Salish Sea

Snowcap – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Snowcap
Snowcap Confirmed in the catalog @27074
Sep 5 – 15, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep 2019

104 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
18
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
10
Deepest dive on record
104 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 5, 2019139 m—29 m
Sep 8, 2019179 m—104 m
Sep 15, 2019175 m—70 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 5, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 8, 2019 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Sep 8Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Sep 15

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

Dives

104 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
18
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
10
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150104 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (179 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 · Sep 8, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
179 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
139 m – 179 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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