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Salish Sea

Split Fin – Residency

29th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Split Fin
Split Fin Confirmed in the catalog @4083
May 29 – Sep 27, 2015 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2015

103 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
227
Dives
Sightings
15
Days between first and last sighting
121

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 2015219 m15.3°C70 m
Jun 6, 2015186 m13.7°C103 m
Jul 14, 2015128 m12.7°C69 m
Jul 20, 201555 m12.6°C48 m
Jul 20, 201526 m12.3°C23 m
Jul 23, 2015-6 m12.9°C—
Jul 25, 201522 m14.3°C17 m
Jul 27, 201581 m12.6°C44 m
Jul 29, 201545 m12.9°C32 m
Aug 5, 2015112 m12.1°C99 m
Aug 10, 201549 m14.7°C41 m
Aug 11, 2015160 m12.1°C89 m
Aug 22, 201523 m13.6°C19 m
Sep 11, 2015111 m12.4°C51 m
Sep 27, 201581 m10.9°C48 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 29, 2015 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)May 29Jun 6, 2015 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Jul 14, 2015 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2015 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 20, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Jul 23, 2015 — seafloor -6 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 25, 2015 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 27, 2015 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jul 29, 2015 — seafloor 45 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2015 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 10, 2015 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2015 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Aug 22, 2015 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Aug 22Sep 11, 2015 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2015 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)

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

Dives

103 m
Deepest dive
4:03
Longest dive
227
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
15
Sightings
121
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150103 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (186 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 6, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
186 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 15 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-6 m – 219 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C – 15.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 15 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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