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Chatham Strait

SEAK-5488 – Residency

5th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of SEAK-5488
SEAK-5488 Confirmed in the catalog @57851
Jun 18 – Jul 9, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Jul 2025

133 m
Deepest dive
4:42
Longest dive
14
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
20
Deepest dive on record
133 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 18, 2025280 m—133 m
Jul 9, 2025200 m—63 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 18, 2025 — seafloor 280 m (measured), deepest dive 133 m (modelled)Jun 18Jul 9, 2025 — seafloor 200 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Jul 9

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

Dives

133 m
Deepest dive
4:42
Longest dive
14
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
20
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150133 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (280 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 18, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
280 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
200 m – 280 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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