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Salish Sea

Orion – Residency

51st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Orion
Orion Confirmed in the catalog @3311
Jun 21 – Sep 24, 2021 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Sep 2021

229 m
Deepest dive
6:51
Longest dive
110
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
95
Deepest dive on record
229 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202184 m11.0°C35 m
Jul 31, 2021126 m17.2°C71 m
Aug 13, 2021268 m20.7°C116 m
Aug 14, 2021180 m20.2°C135 m
Aug 21, 2021358 m18.6°C229 m
Aug 27, 2021132 m11.4°C56 m
Sep 2, 202198 m12.3°C57 m
Sep 24, 2021197 m10.8°C52 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 21, 2021 — seafloor 84 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 31, 2021 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 13, 2021 — seafloor 268 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive 135 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 21, 2021 — seafloor 358 m (measured), deepest dive 229 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 27, 2021 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 2, 2021 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 24, 2021 — seafloor 197 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Sep 24

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

Dives

229 m
Deepest dive
6:51
Longest dive
110
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
95
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250229 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (358 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 21, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
358 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.6°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
84 m – 358 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C – 20.7°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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