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Salish Sea

Scrimmage – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Scrimmage
Scrimmage Confirmed in the catalog @34629
Jun 24 – Sep 18, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Sep 2024

177 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
82
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
86
Deepest dive on record
177 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 24, 202445 m15.4°C27 m
Jul 3, 2024293 m15.6°C63 m
Aug 2, 2024242 m18.9°C21 m
Aug 5, 2024258 m18.9°C177 m
Aug 5, 2024170 m19.8°C50 m
Sep 17, 2024214 m13.5°C82 m
Sep 18, 2024119 m13.5°C74 m
Sep 18, 202457 m13.5°C47 m
Sep 18, 202487 m13.4°C65 m
Sep 18, 2024234 m13.5°C93 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 24, 2024 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 24Jul 3, 2024 — seafloor 293 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 2, 2024 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 258 m (measured), deepest dive 177 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 5, 2024 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Aug 5Sep 17, 2024 — seafloor 214 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 17Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 119 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 57 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 18, 2024 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Sep 18

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

Dives

177 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
82
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
86
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200177 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (258 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 5, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
258 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
45 m – 293 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.4°C – 19.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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