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Salish Sea

Pointer – Residency

2nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Pointer
Pointer Confirmed in the catalog @35191
Sep 12 – 21, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep 2022

104 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
9
Deepest dive on record
104 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 12, 2022138 m—104 m
Sep 21, 2022167 m—70 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 12, 2022 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Sep 12Sep 21, 2022 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Sep 21

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

Dives

104 m
Deepest dive
4:01
Longest dive
40
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
9
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150104 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (138 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 12, 2022

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

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
138 m – 167 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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