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Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

SEAK-1953 – Residency

13th sighting in Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof
Fluke of SEAK-1953
SEAK-1953 Confirmed in the catalog @39433
May 5 – Jun 7, 2022 · Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof · May – Jun 2022

83 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
152
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
33

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 5, 202278 m6.7°C69 m
May 9, 2022118 m8.1°C77 m
May 13, 202296 m8.4°C55 m
May 14, 202278 m8.9°C65 m
May 16, 202278 m7.9°C68 m
May 20, 202233 m8.4°C19 m
May 24, 202211 m9.1°C7 m
May 31, 202241 m10.6°C34 m
May 31, 2022128 m10.6°C83 m
May 31, 202278 m11.0°C46 m
Jun 7, 202213 m10.6°C12 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 5, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)May 5May 9, 2022 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 9May 13, 2022 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)May 13May 14, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)May 14May 16, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)May 16May 20, 2022 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)May 20May 24, 2022 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 7 m (modelled)May 24May 31, 2022 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)May 31May 31, 2022 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)May 31May 31, 2022 — seafloor 78 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)May 31Jun 7, 2022 — seafloor 13 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Jun 7

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

Dives

83 m
Deepest dive
3:37
Longest dive
152
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
33
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010083 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 · May 31, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
128 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C
Distance from shore
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Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m – 128 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.7°C – 11.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 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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