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Salish Sea

Split Fin – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Split Fin
Split Fin Confirmed in the catalog @4083
Aug 17 – Nov 29, 2007 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Nov 2007

94 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
104

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 2007142 m11.5°C70 m
Oct 31, 200787 m9.5°C20 m
Nov 4, 2007158 m9.5°C73 m
Nov 20, 200792 m8.6°C39 m
Nov 29, 2007135 m8.0°C94 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 17, 2007 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Aug 17Oct 31, 2007 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 31Nov 4, 2007 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Nov 4Nov 20, 2007 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Nov 20Nov 29, 2007 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Nov 29

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

Dives

94 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
48
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
104
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010094 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (135 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 · Nov 29, 2007

measured
Seafloor depth
135 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 158 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.0°C – 11.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 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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