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Chatham Strait

Vector Equilibrium – Residency

2nd sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Vector Equilibrium
Vector Equilibrium Confirmed in the catalog @50932
Sep 18 – 19, 2019 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Sep 2019

27 m
Deepest dive
1:16
Longest dive
11
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 18, 201917 m—15 m
Sep 19, 201940 m—27 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 18, 2019 — seafloor 17 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 18Sep 19, 2019 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 19

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

Dives

27 m
Deepest dive
1:16
Longest dive
11
Dives
13 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0255027 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (40 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 · Sep 19, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
17 m – 40 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 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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