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Chatham Strait

Buttons – Residency

10th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Buttons
Buttons Confirmed in the catalog @5643
Apr 19 – Aug 13, 2022 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Apr – Aug 2022

291 m
Deepest dive
8:16
Longest dive
133
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
116
Deepest dive on record
291 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Apr 19, 202234 m—27 m
Jun 26, 202295 m—83 m
Jun 27, 2022378 m—28 m
Jun 28, 2022456 m—291 m
Aug 1, 2022117 m—46 m
Aug 12, 202235 m—32 m
Aug 13, 202248 m—31 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Apr 19, 2022 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Apr 19Jun 26, 2022 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 27, 2022 — seafloor 378 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 28, 2022 — seafloor 456 m (measured), deepest dive 291 m (modelled)Jun 28Aug 1, 2022 — seafloor 117 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 12, 2022 — seafloor 35 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 13, 2022 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

291 m
Deepest dive
8:16
Longest dive
133
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
116
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300291 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (456 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 · Jun 28, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
456 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
34 m – 456 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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