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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5225 – Residency

19th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5225
SEAK-5225 Confirmed in the catalog @37046
May 27 – Aug 13, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · May – Aug 2025

148 m
Deepest dive
6:05
Longest dive
100
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
78
Deepest dive on record
148 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 2025330 m7.9°C148 m
Jun 18, 202571 m10.4°C44 m
Jun 28, 202525 m12.2°C23 m
Jul 10, 202533 m12.4°C27 m
Jul 28, 202586 m13.6°C61 m
Aug 13, 2025103 m13.6°C81 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 27, 2025 — seafloor 330 m (measured), deepest dive 148 m (modelled)May 27Jun 18, 2025 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 28, 2025 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 10, 2025 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 10Jul 28, 2025 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 13, 2025 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

148 m
Deepest dive
6:05
Longest dive
100
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
78
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150148 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (330 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 · May 27, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
330 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
25 m – 330 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.9°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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