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Salish Sea

Zephyr – Residency

41st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Zephyr
Zephyr Confirmed in the catalog @4182
Jul 12 – Oct 7, 2021 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2021

102 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
29
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 12, 2021128 m12.2°C95 m
Aug 2, 2021173 m13.4°C71 m
Oct 1, 202179 m10.6°C21 m
Oct 7, 2021168 m9.3°C102 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 12, 2021 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 12Aug 2, 2021 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 2Oct 1, 2021 — seafloor 79 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 7, 2021 — seafloor 168 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

102 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
29
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150102 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (168 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 · Oct 7, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
168 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
79 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.3°C – 13.4°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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