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Gulf of California

SPLASH-470799 – Residency

4th sighting in Gulf of California
Fluke of SPLASH-470799
SPLASH-470799 Confirmed in the catalog @50082
Feb 3 – 27, 2023 · Gulf of California

Gulf of California · Feb 2023

294 m
Deepest dive
10:53
Longest dive
37
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
24
Deepest dive on record
294 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Feb 3, 20231,506 m—90 m
Feb 5, 20231,078 m—294 m
Feb 22, 20231,038 m—91 m
Feb 27, 202332 m—20 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Feb 3, 2023 — seafloor 1,506 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Feb 3Feb 5, 2023 — seafloor 1,078 m (measured), deepest dive 294 m (modelled)Feb 5Feb 22, 2023 — seafloor 1,038 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Feb 22Feb 27, 2023 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Feb 27

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

Dives

294 m
Deepest dive
10:53
Longest dive
37
Dives
30 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
24
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300294 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (1,078 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 · Feb 5, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
1,078 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
32 m – 1,506 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 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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