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Salish Sea

Raptor – Residency

20th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raptor
Raptor Confirmed in the catalog @7009
May 29 – Nov 22, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Nov 2019

128 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
72
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
177

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 2019107 m10.8°C45 m
May 30, 2019150 m11.1°C128 m
Jul 25, 2019107 m11.5°C43 m
Jul 26, 2019128 m12.0°C113 m
Sep 3, 2019144 m14.7°C103 m
Sep 20, 2019200 m13.0°C94 m
Sep 22, 201996 m12.4°C24 m
Nov 22, 201934 m9.5°C30 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 29, 2019 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)May 29May 30, 2019 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)May 30Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 26, 2019 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 113 m (modelled)Jul 26Sep 3, 2019 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 20, 2019 — seafloor 200 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 22, 2019 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 22Nov 22, 2019 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Nov 22

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
72
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
177
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (150 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 · May 30, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
150 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C
Distance from shore
11.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
34 m – 200 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.5°C – 14.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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