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Chatham Strait

Sherona – Residency

31st sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Sherona
Sherona Confirmed in the catalog @6441
Jul 14 – Aug 23, 2025 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · Jul – Aug 2025

168 m
Deepest dive
5:50
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
39

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 14, 2025581 m13.2°C168 m
Jul 16, 20254 m12.1°C4 m
Aug 14, 2025132 m14.9°C104 m
Aug 23, 202590 m14.7°C39 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 14, 2025 — seafloor 581 m (measured), deepest dive 168 m (modelled)Jul 14Jul 16, 2025 — seafloor 4 m (measured), deepest dive 4 m (modelled)Jul 16Aug 14, 2025 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Aug 14Aug 23, 2025 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Aug 23

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

Dives

168 m
Deepest dive
5:50
Longest dive
62
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
39
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200168 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (581 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 14, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
581 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.2°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
4 m – 581 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.1°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 3.0 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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