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Salish Sea

Hemlock – Residency

33rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Hemlock
Hemlock Confirmed in the catalog @5001
Jul 4 – Oct 12, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2020

125 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
70
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
100

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 4, 2020136 m10.9°C60 m
Jul 19, 2020172 m11.7°C21 m
Aug 23, 2020173 m11.0°C125 m
Oct 8, 202073 m—57 m
Oct 12, 202074 m10.2°C47 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 4, 2020 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jul 4Jul 19, 2020 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jul 19Aug 23, 2020 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 125 m (modelled)Aug 23Oct 8, 2020 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 8Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

125 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
70
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
100
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150125 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (173 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 23, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
173 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
73 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 11.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 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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