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Chatham Strait

WidowMaker – Residency

14th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of WidowMaker
WidowMaker Confirmed in the catalog @6371
Jun 12 – Aug 12, 2019 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jun – Aug 2019

65 m
Deepest dive
2:25
Longest dive
29
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
61

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 12, 201954 m9.2°C44 m
Jul 12, 201981 m12.9°C65 m
Jul 20, 201944 m12.4°C34 m
Aug 12, 201963 m13.3°C49 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 12, 2019 — seafloor 54 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Jun 12Jul 12, 2019 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jul 12Jul 20, 2019 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 20Aug 12, 2019 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Aug 12

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

Dives

65 m
Deepest dive
2:25
Longest dive
29
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
61
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010065 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (81 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 12, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
81 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 81 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.2°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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