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Salish Sea

Victory – Residency

10th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Victory
Victory Confirmed in the catalog @3553
Jul 27 – Aug 11, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2019

129 m
Deepest dive
6:27
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
15

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 27, 201955 m12.8°C—
Jul 28, 2019133 m13.0°C—
Jul 29, 2019156 m12.7°C—
Aug 11, 2019164 m12.4°C129 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 27, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 27Jul 28, 2019 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Aug 11, 2019 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Aug 11

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

Dives

129 m
Deepest dive
6:27
Longest dive
20
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
15
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150129 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (164 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 11, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
164 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
55 m – 164 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C – 13.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 10.0 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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