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Salish Sea

Heather – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Heather
Heather Confirmed in the catalog @533
Oct 11 – Nov 1, 2007 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Oct – Nov 2007

87 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
29
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
21

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 11, 2007160 m9.7°C42 m
Oct 31, 200787 m9.5°C74 m
Nov 1, 2007104 m9.9°C87 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 11, 2007 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 31, 2007 — seafloor 87 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Oct 31Nov 1, 2007 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Nov 1

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

Dives

87 m
Deepest dive
3:19
Longest dive
29
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
21
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010087 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (104 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 · Nov 1, 2007

measured
Seafloor depth
104 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
87 m – 160 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 9.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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