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Salish Sea

Frankenstein – Residency

12th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Frankenstein
Frankenstein Confirmed in the catalog @3715
May 26 – Sep 22, 2017 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2017

76 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
118

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 26, 2017154 m10.5°C70 m
Jul 17, 2017105 m11.8°C68 m
Jul 18, 2017178 m12.3°C59 m
Sep 21, 2017140 m10.1°C76 m
Sep 22, 2017177 m10.2°C68 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 26, 2017 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)May 26Jul 17, 2017 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 18, 2017 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jul 18Sep 21, 2017 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Sep 21Sep 22, 2017 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Sep 22

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

Dives

76 m
Deepest dive
3:20
Longest dive
44
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
118
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010076 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (140 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 21, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
140 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.1°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
105 m – 178 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.1°C – 12.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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