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Salish Sea

Anvil – Residency

14th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Anvil
Anvil Confirmed in the catalog @3775
Jul 25 – Oct 12, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2019

112 m
Deepest dive
3:33
Longest dive
25
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
79

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 25, 201992 m11.7°C—
Jul 26, 201966 m12.0°C—
Jul 29, 2019173 m12.7°C—
Aug 7, 2019353 m19.0°C—
Oct 4, 2019121 m10.5°C58 m
Oct 6, 2019147 m10.7°C74 m
Oct 11, 2019179 m10.3°C15 m
Oct 12, 2019139 m10.3°C112 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2019 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 26Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Aug 7, 2019 — seafloor 353 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 7Oct 4, 2019 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 6, 2019 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 11, 2019 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2019 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 112 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

112 m
Deepest dive
3:33
Longest dive
25
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
79
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150112 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (139 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 12, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
139 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
66 m – 353 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C – 19.0°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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