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Salish Sea

Niagara – Residency

13th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Niagara
Niagara Confirmed in the catalog @6489
Jul 11 – 25, 2018 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul 2018

382 m
Deepest dive
11:30
Longest dive
47
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
14
Deepest dive on record
382 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 11, 2018113 m17.8°C58 m
Jul 16, 2018130 m16.2°C39 m
Jul 22, 2018132 m16.3°C118 m
Jul 23, 2018504 m16.5°C382 m
Jul 25, 2018112 m17.9°C45 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 11, 2018 — seafloor 113 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 16, 2018 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 22, 2018 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 118 m (modelled)Jul 22Jul 23, 2018 — seafloor 504 m (measured), deepest dive 382 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 25, 2018 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 25

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

Dives

382 m
Deepest dive
11:30
Longest dive
47
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
14
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0200400382 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (504 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 23, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
504 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
112 m – 504 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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