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Chatham Strait

Vulture – Residency

24th sighting in Chatham Strait
Fluke of Vulture
Vulture Confirmed in the catalog @6610
May 30 – Aug 28, 2022 · Chatham Strait

Chatham Strait · May – Aug 2022

124 m
Deepest dive
4:25
Longest dive
155
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
89

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 30, 202262 m9.5°C55 m
May 31, 202288 m9.6°C61 m
Jun 10, 202224 m11.1°C22 m
Jul 20, 2022182 m13.7°C111 m
Jul 25, 2022321 m12.4°C124 m
Aug 11, 2022342 m12.1°C51 m
Aug 11, 2022195 m12.5°C96 m
Aug 19, 202277 m12.4°C59 m
Aug 20, 202266 m13.1°C14 m
Aug 21, 202251 m13.4°C42 m
Aug 28, 2022313 m13.6°C81 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 30, 2022 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)May 30May 31, 2022 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)May 31Jun 10, 2022 — seafloor 24 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 10Jul 20, 2022 — seafloor 182 m (measured), deepest dive 111 m (modelled)Jul 20Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 321 m (measured), deepest dive 124 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 11, 2022 — seafloor 342 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 11, 2022 — seafloor 195 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Aug 11Aug 19, 2022 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 20, 2022 — seafloor 66 m (measured), deepest dive 14 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 21, 2022 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 28, 2022 — seafloor 313 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Aug 28

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

Dives

124 m
Deepest dive
4:25
Longest dive
155
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
89
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150124 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (321 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 25, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
321 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
24 m – 342 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 13.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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 11 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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