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Salish Sea

Anvil – Residency

16th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Anvil
Anvil Confirmed in the catalog @3775
Jun 28 – Aug 28, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2020

41 m
Deepest dive
2:01
Longest dive
26
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 28, 202060 m11.4°C41 m
Aug 28, 2020383 m16.7°C39 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 28, 2020 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jun 28Aug 28, 2020 — seafloor 383 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 28

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

Dives

41 m
Deepest dive
2:01
Longest dive
26
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
61
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255041 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (60 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 · Jun 28, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
60 m – 383 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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