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Salish Sea

Polyphemus - † – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Polyphemus - †
Polyphemus - † Confirmed in the catalog @29832
Jun 16 – Oct 3, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Oct 2024

95 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
109

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 16, 2024189 m—85 m
Jul 27, 2024222 m—95 m
Aug 1, 202446 m—37 m
Oct 3, 20244 m—4 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 16, 2024 — seafloor 189 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Jun 16Jul 27, 2024 — seafloor 222 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 1, 2024 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Aug 1Oct 3, 2024 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Oct 3

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

Dives

95 m
Deepest dive
4:26
Longest dive
44
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
109
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010095 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (222 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 · Jul 27, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
222 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 222 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 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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