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Salish Sea

Sparrow – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Sparrow
Sparrow Confirmed in the catalog @36863
May 14 – Sep 3, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2022

150 m
Deepest dive
7:19
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
112
Deepest dive on record
150 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 14, 202249 m—40 m
May 14, 2022138 m—32 m
Jul 16, 202280 m—71 m
Aug 8, 2022241 m—150 m
Aug 18, 2022140 m—65 m
Sep 3, 2022438 m—26 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 14, 2022 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)May 14May 14, 2022 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)May 14Jul 16, 2022 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 16Aug 8, 2022 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 150 m (modelled)Aug 8Aug 18, 2022 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 18Sep 3, 2022 — seafloor 438 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Sep 3

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

Dives

150 m
Deepest dive
7:19
Longest dive
60
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
112
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200150 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (241 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 8, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
241 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 438 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 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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