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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5443 – Residency

5th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5443
SEAK-5443 Confirmed in the catalog @51314
May 2 – Jul 7, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, My Kind of Neighborhood

Cliffs echoing my breath, herring thick, good company all around.

218 m
Deepest dive
7:54
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
66
Deepest dive on record
218 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 2, 202664 m6.2°C33 m
Jun 10, 2026222 m9.8°C81 m
Jun 29, 2026217 m11.7°C97 m
Jul 7, 2026325 m12.2°C218 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 2, 2026 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)May 2Jun 10, 2026 — seafloor 222 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Jun 10Jun 29, 2026 — seafloor 217 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Jun 29Jul 7, 2026 — seafloor 325 m (measured), deepest dive 218 m (modelled)Jul 7

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

Dives

218 m
Deepest dive
7:54
Longest dive
52
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
66
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250218 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (325 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 7, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
325 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 325 m
Sea-surface temperature
6.2°C – 12.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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