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Salish Sea

Zephyr – Residency

29th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Zephyr
Zephyr Confirmed in the catalog @4182
Jul 23 – Oct 18, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2019

77 m
Deepest dive
3:10
Longest dive
17
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
87

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 23, 2019146 m11.3°C—
Jul 29, 201936 m12.9°C—
Aug 17, 2019109 m12.4°C77 m
Oct 18, 2019124 m9.9°C53 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 23, 2019 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 23Jul 29, 2019 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 29Aug 17, 2019 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 17Oct 18, 2019 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

77 m
Deepest dive
3:10
Longest dive
17
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010077 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 · Aug 17, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 146 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C – 12.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 11.0 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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