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Salish Sea

Niagara – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Niagara
Niagara Confirmed in the catalog @6489
Aug 17 – Sep 16, 2023 · Salish Sea

August in the Salish Sea

The familiar currents called me back to these sheltered waters again.

170 m
Deepest dive
5:06
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
30

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 17, 2023199 m18.2°C170 m
Aug 21, 2023320 m17.1°C33 m
Aug 23, 2023323 m16.9°C74 m
Sep 16, 2023276 m17.2°C88 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 17, 2023 — seafloor 199 m (measured), deepest dive 170 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 21, 2023 — seafloor 320 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 23, 2023 — seafloor 323 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Aug 23Sep 16, 2023 — seafloor 276 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

170 m
Deepest dive
5:06
Longest dive
30
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
30
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200170 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (199 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 · Aug 17, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
199 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.2°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
199 m – 323 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.9°C – 18.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km – 12.0 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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