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Chatham Strait

Equals – Residency

35th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Equals
Equals Confirmed in the catalog @5325
Jul 16 – 24, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jul 2025

95 m
Deepest dive
2:57
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 20254 m12.1°C4 m
Jul 17, 20254 m12.0°C3 m
Jul 19, 2025158 m12.2°C95 m
Jul 21, 202515 m12.9°C11 m
Jul 24, 202598 m13.6°C30 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 16, 2025 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 17, 2025 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 3 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 19, 2025 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 21, 2025 — seafloor 15 m (measured), deepest dive 11 m (modelled)Jul 21Jul 24, 2025 — seafloor 98 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 24

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

Dives

95 m
Deepest dive
2:57
Longest dive
51
Dives
12 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010095 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (158 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 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
158 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.2°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 158 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.0°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 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.

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