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Salish Sea

Split Fin – Residency

33rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Split Fin
Split Fin Confirmed in the catalog @4083
Jul 6 – Sep 14, 2016 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2016

129 m
Deepest dive
4:08
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 201686 m11.0°C66 m
Jul 21, 201681 m11.9°C27 m
Aug 2, 201622 m13.5°C19 m
Aug 27, 2016164 m16.9°C72 m
Sep 14, 2016167 m11.8°C129 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 6, 2016 — seafloor 86 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 21, 2016 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 21Aug 2, 2016 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 27, 2016 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 27Sep 14, 2016 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 129 m (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

129 m
Deepest dive
4:08
Longest dive
44
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
71
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150129 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (167 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 · Sep 14, 2016

measured
Seafloor depth
167 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 167 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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