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Salish Sea

Valhalla – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Valhalla
Valhalla Confirmed in the catalog @34636
Aug 10 – Sep 21, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2019

138 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
42
Deepest dive on record
138 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 10, 2019150 m—46 m
Aug 10, 2019165 m—66 m
Aug 15, 2019107 m—47 m
Sep 15, 2019175 m—138 m
Sep 15, 2019182 m—98 m
Sep 21, 201967 m—34 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 10, 2019 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 10, 2019 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 15, 2019 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 15Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 138 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 21, 2019 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

138 m
Deepest dive
3:12
Longest dive
63
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
42
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150138 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 · Sep 15, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
67 m – 182 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 13.0 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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