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Salish Sea

Scrimmage – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Scrimmage
Scrimmage Confirmed in the catalog @34629
Aug 30 – Oct 7, 2021 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Oct 2021

132 m
Deepest dive
4:58
Longest dive
28
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
38

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 30, 2021130 m11.6°C110 m
Oct 2, 2021172 m10.4°C132 m
Oct 7, 20214 m11.8°C4 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 30, 2021 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Aug 30Oct 2, 2021 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 132 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 7, 2021 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

132 m
Deepest dive
4:58
Longest dive
28
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
38
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150132 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (172 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 · Oct 2, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
172 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 172 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 11.8°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 5.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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