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Salish Sea

Split Fluke – Residency

82nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Split Fluke
Split Fluke Confirmed in the catalog @3534
Jun 17 – Sep 10, 2024 · Salish Sea

Summer in the Salish

Spent the season in familiar waters, feeding where the currents know me best.

162 m
Deepest dive
7:34
Longest dive
185
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
85

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 2024186 m16.2°C94 m
Jun 30, 2024232 m16.3°C107 m
Jul 1, 2024148 m17.3°C58 m
Jul 7, 2024227 m19.9°C97 m
Jul 9, 2024152 m20.9°C99 m
Jul 9, 2024221 m21.0°C98 m
Aug 14, 2024210 m19.5°C162 m
Aug 23, 202488 m10.5°C81 m
Sep 3, 2024182 m17.6°C66 m
Sep 4, 202434 m18.2°C26 m
Sep 9, 2024151 m16.4°C95 m
Sep 10, 20244 m15.8°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
Jun 17, 2024 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 232 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 1, 2024 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 7, 2024 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 221 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Jul 9Aug 14, 2024 — seafloor 210 m (measured), deepest dive 162 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 23, 2024 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 3, 2024 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2024 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 9, 2024 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Sep 9Sep 10, 2024 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

162 m
Deepest dive
7:34
Longest dive
185
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
85
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200162 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (210 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, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
210 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.5°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 232 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C – 21.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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