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Salish Sea

Slingshot – Residency

4th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Slingshot
Slingshot Confirmed in the catalog @34623
Aug 17 – 27, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug 2019

124 m
Deepest dive
4:44
Longest dive
31
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
10
Deepest dive on record
124 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 2019139 m—107 m
Aug 19, 2019177 m—124 m
Aug 22, 2019166 m—59 m
Aug 27, 201958 m—33 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 17, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 19, 2019 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 22, 2019 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 27, 2019 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

124 m
Deepest dive
4:44
Longest dive
31
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
10
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150124 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (177 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 19, 2019

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

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
58 m – 177 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 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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