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Salish Sea

Split Fluke – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Split Fluke
Split Fluke Confirmed in the catalog @3534
Jul 28 – Oct 15, 2014 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2014

75 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
23
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
80

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 28, 2014178 m12.6°C29 m
Sep 4, 201431 m11.7°C26 m
Sep 9, 2014166 m11.0°C75 m
Oct 15, 2014170 m10.9°C52 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 28, 2014 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Jul 28Sep 4, 2014 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 9, 2014 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Sep 9Oct 15, 2014 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Oct 15

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
2:00
Longest dive
23
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
80
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 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 9, 2014

measured
Seafloor depth
166 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 178 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C – 12.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 4 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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