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Salish Sea

Boomerang – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Boomerang
Boomerang Confirmed in the catalog @34632
Aug 13 – Sep 10, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2020

151 m
Deepest dive
4:46
Longest dive
104
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
28
Deepest dive on record
151 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 13, 202080 m—72 m
Aug 14, 2020200 m—151 m
Aug 19, 2020132 m—41 m
Sep 2, 202078 m—69 m
Sep 5, 202080 m—62 m
Sep 10, 2020275 m—54 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 13, 2020 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 14, 2020 — seafloor 200 m (measured), deepest dive 151 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 19, 2020 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 19Sep 2, 2020 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 2Sep 5, 2020 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Sep 5Sep 10, 2020 — seafloor 275 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

151 m
Deepest dive
4:46
Longest dive
104
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
28
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200151 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (200 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 14, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
200 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
14.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
78 m – 275 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 15.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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