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Clarence Strait

WidowMaker – Residency

5th sighting in Clarence Strait
Fluke of WidowMaker
WidowMaker Confirmed in the catalog @6371
Jul 20 – Sep 10, 2026 · Clarence Strait

Chatham Strait, Herring Season

Rose into my own cold green water, right on time for the herring.

69 m
Deepest dive
2:46
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
52

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 202624 m13.1°C22 m
Sep 3, 202655 m13.2°C41 m
Sep 6, 202692 m13.3°C69 m
Sep 10, 202682 m13.3°C42 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 20, 2026 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 20Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 10, 2026 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Sep 10

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

Dives

69 m
Deepest dive
2:46
Longest dive
53
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
52
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010069 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (92 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 · Sep 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
92 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 92 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 13.3°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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