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Salish Sea

Pyramid – Residency

45th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Pyramid
Pyramid Confirmed in the catalog @4623
Jun 5 – Sep 30, 2023 · Salish Sea

Summer in the Salish

These familiar waters called me back again, holding me through the long bright months.

124 m
Deepest dive
4:07
Longest dive
48
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
117

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 5, 2023126 m11.0°C100 m
Jul 28, 2023160 m12.3°C124 m
Sep 30, 2023204 m13.4°C118 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 5, 2023 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 100 m (modelled)Jun 5Jul 28, 2023 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Jul 28Sep 30, 2023 — seafloor 204 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

124 m
Deepest dive
4:07
Longest dive
48
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
117
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150124 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (160 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 · Jul 28, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
160 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
126 m – 204 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 13.4°C
Distance from shore
3.0 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 3 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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