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Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

SEAK-5229 – Residency

9th sighting in Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof
Fluke of SEAK-5229
SEAK-5229 Confirmed in the catalog @40910
Mar 19 – May 14, 2023 · Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof

Sitka Sound & Outer Baranof · Mar – May 2023

64 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
159
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
55
Deepest dive on record
64 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Mar 19, 202390 m—64 m
Mar 20, 202365 m—55 m
Apr 1, 202325 m—22 m
Apr 2, 202373 m—29 m
Apr 2, 202349 m—40 m
Apr 3, 202372 m—41 m
Apr 6, 202332 m—26 m
Apr 7, 202318 m—15 m
Apr 18, 202330 m—28 m
May 14, 202366 m—49 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Mar 19, 2023 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Mar 19Mar 20, 2023 — seafloor 65 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Mar 20Apr 1, 2023 — seafloor 25 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Apr 1Apr 2, 2023 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Apr 2Apr 2, 2023 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Apr 2Apr 3, 2023 — seafloor 72 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Apr 3Apr 6, 2023 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Apr 6Apr 7, 2023 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Apr 7Apr 18, 2023 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Apr 18May 14, 2023 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)May 14

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

Dives

64 m
Deepest dive
2:24
Longest dive
159
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
55
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010064 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (90 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 · Mar 19, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
90 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
18 m – 90 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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