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Salish Sea

Geometry – Residency

15th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Geometry
Geometry Confirmed in the catalog @5448
Jun 27 – Sep 3, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Sep 2022

71 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
36
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
68

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 27, 202288 m11.8°C68 m
Jul 6, 2022219 m16.5°C71 m
Jul 31, 2022146 m20.0°C64 m
Sep 3, 202262 m16.5°C18 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 27, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 6, 2022 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 31, 2022 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 3, 2022 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 18 m (modelled)Sep 3

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

Dives

71 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
36
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
68
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010071 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (219 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 6, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
219 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
62 m – 219 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C – 20.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 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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