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Salish Sea

Dandelion – Residency

5th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Dandelion
Dandelion Confirmed in the catalog @53603
Jun 17 – Jul 17, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Jul 2024

77 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
27
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
30

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 2024162 m—46 m
Jul 2, 2024286 m—77 m
Jul 9, 2024241 m—46 m
Jul 17, 2024264 m—34 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 17, 2024 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 2, 2024 — seafloor 286 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 2Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 241 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 17, 2024 — seafloor 264 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 17

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

Dives

77 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
27
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
30
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010077 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (286 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 2, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
286 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
162 m – 286 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 8.0 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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