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Salish Sea

Two Spot – Residency

36th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Two Spot
Two Spot Confirmed in the catalog @3773
Aug 14 – Nov 9, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Nov 2020

105 m
Deepest dive
3:47
Longest dive
113
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
87
Deepest dive on record
105 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 14, 2020196 m18.6°C105 m
Aug 16, 2020104 m14.1°C34 m
Aug 16, 202091 m14.0°C82 m
Aug 16, 202063 m13.7°C56 m
Aug 20, 202059 m12.2°C39 m
Oct 22, 2020109 m10.0°C45 m
Nov 4, 2020132 m9.9°C92 m
Nov 6, 2020114 m9.5°C96 m
Nov 9, 2020198 m9.4°C43 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 14, 2020 — seafloor 196 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 16, 2020 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 16, 2020 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 16, 2020 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 20, 2020 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 20Oct 22, 2020 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Oct 22Nov 4, 2020 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Nov 4Nov 6, 2020 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Nov 6Nov 9, 2020 — seafloor 198 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Nov 9

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

Dives

105 m
Deepest dive
3:47
Longest dive
113
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150105 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (196 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 14, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
196 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.6°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
59 m – 198 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.4°C – 18.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 9 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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