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Salish Sea

Ghost – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Ghost
Ghost Confirmed in the catalog @6553
Jul 13 – Oct 1, 2017 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
81

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 13, 2017183 m11.0°C—
Jul 14, 2017171 m11.6°C—
Jul 17, 2017172 m11.5°C—
Jul 20, 2017184 m11.8°C—
Sep 13, 2017170 m11.4°C—
Oct 1, 2017174 m10.9°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 13, 2017 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 13Jul 14, 2017 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 14Jul 17, 2017 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 17Jul 20, 2017 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 20Sep 13, 2017 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 13Oct 1, 2017 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 1

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
81
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Oct 1, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
170 m – 184 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.9°C – 11.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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