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Salish Sea

Two Spot – Residency

9th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Two Spot
Two Spot Confirmed in the catalog @3773
Jun 5 – Jul 30, 2016 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Jul 2016

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
55

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 2016117 m11.8°C—
Jun 25, 2016180 m10.2°C—
Jul 16, 2016173 m12.0°C—
Jul 17, 201681 m12.1°C—
Jul 21, 201681 m11.9°C—
Jul 22, 201670 m11.3°C—
Jul 30, 2016148 m12.3°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 5, 2016 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 5Jun 25, 2016 — seafloor 180 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 25Jul 16, 2016 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2016 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 17Jul 21, 2016 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 21Jul 22, 2016 — seafloor 70 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 22Jul 30, 2016 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 30

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
55
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Jul 30, 2016

measured
Seafloor depth
148 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
70 m – 180 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 12.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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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