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Chatham Strait

SuperBolide – Residency

10th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SuperBolide
SuperBolide Confirmed in the catalog @5663
May 21 – Jun 24, 2026 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait, Still Delivering

Deep water, close shoreline, feeding good enough to linger.

84 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
63
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
33

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 21, 2026106 m8.3°C84 m
May 25, 2026330 m7.6°C60 m
Jun 24, 202688 m11.9°C67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 21, 2026 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)May 21May 25, 2026 — seafloor 330 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)May 25Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 24

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

Dives

84 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
63
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
33
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010084 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (106 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 · May 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
106 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.3°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
88 m – 330 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.6°C – 11.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 5.0 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.

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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