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East Australia

ALCYONE – Residency

12th sighting in East Australia
Fluke of ALCYONE
ALCYONE Confirmed in the catalog @27308
Sep 25 – Oct 6, 2024 · East Australia

East Australia · Sep – Oct 2024

14 m
Deepest dive
0:55
Longest dive
29
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)
Sep 25, 20246 m—4 m
Sep 25, 202410 m—9 m
Sep 30, 202417 m—14 m
Oct 6, 202414 m—12 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 25, 2024 — seafloor 6 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 25, 2024 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 30, 2024 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 6, 2024 — seafloor 14 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Oct 6

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

Dives

14 m
Deepest dive
0:55
Longest dive
29
Dives
6 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
11
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255014 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (17 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 30, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
6 m – 17 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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