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Salish Sea

Smiley – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Smiley
Smiley Confirmed in the catalog @4303
Jun 21 – Aug 30, 2021 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2021

116 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
71
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
69
Deepest dive on record
116 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 21, 2021111 m—58 m
Jul 3, 2021114 m—97 m
Aug 9, 2021140 m—116 m
Aug 14, 2021115 m—97 m
Aug 30, 2021130 m—94 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, 2021 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 21Jul 3, 2021 — seafloor 114 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jul 3Aug 9, 2021 — seafloor 140 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 14, 2021 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 30, 2021 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

116 m
Deepest dive
4:52
Longest dive
71
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
69
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150116 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (140 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 9, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
140 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
111 m – 140 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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