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Chatham Strait

Amazona – Residency

9th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Amazona
Amazona Confirmed in the catalog @41188
Jun 21 – Sep 7, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, Every Summer

Herring thick, trees close, whole company of me showing up right on time.

115 m
Deepest dive
4:50
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
78

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 202650 m11.2°C38 m
Jul 1, 2026194 m11.4°C99 m
Jul 31, 202689 m12.8°C56 m
Sep 7, 2026385 m14.3°C115 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 21, 2026 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 1, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 99 m (modelled)Jul 1Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 385 m (measured), deepest dive 115 m (modelled)Sep 7

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

Dives

115 m
Deepest dive
4:50
Longest dive
44
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
78
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150115 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (385 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 7, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
385 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
50 m – 385 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.2°C – 14.3°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 4 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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