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Salish Sea

Barnacle Bill – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Barnacle Bill
Barnacle Bill Confirmed in the catalog @3769
Sep 20 – Oct 13, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep – Oct 2022

117 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
55
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
23
Deepest dive on record
117 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 20, 2022106 m—29 m
Sep 21, 2022167 m—57 m
Oct 13, 2022128 m—117 m
Oct 13, 2022159 m—91 m
Oct 13, 2022168 m—104 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 20, 2022 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 21, 2022 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Sep 21Oct 13, 2022 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Oct 13Oct 13, 2022 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Oct 13Oct 13, 2022 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Oct 13

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

Dives

117 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
55
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
23
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150117 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (128 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 · Oct 13, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
128 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
106 m – 168 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · 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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