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Antarctic Peninsula

Moth Tail – Residency

3rd sighting in Antarctic Peninsula
Fluke of Moth Tail
Moth Tail Confirmed in the catalog @45783
Dec 27, 2019 – Jan 29, 2020 · Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020

168 m
Deepest dive
6:59
Longest dive
24
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
33
Deepest dive on record
168 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Dec 27, 2019127 m—87 m
Jan 29, 2020313 m—168 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Dec 27, 2019 — seafloor 127 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Dec 27Jan 29, 2020 — seafloor 313 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Jan 29

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
6:59
Longest dive
24
Dives
35 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
33
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (313 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 · Jan 29, 2020

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

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
127 m – 313 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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