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Salish Sea

Raptor – Residency

35th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raptor
Raptor Confirmed in the catalog @7009
Jul 7 – Nov 19, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Nov 2022

91 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
64
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
135

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 7, 2022122 m12.2°C34 m
Jul 9, 2022137 m11.9°C55 m
Aug 29, 2022115 m17.2°C73 m
Sep 30, 2022100 m11.8°C91 m
Oct 29, 2022106 m10.1°C61 m
Nov 19, 2022149 m9.1°C48 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 7, 2022 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 9, 2022 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 9Aug 29, 2022 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Aug 29Sep 30, 2022 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 29, 2022 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Oct 29Nov 19, 2022 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Nov 19

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

Dives

91 m
Deepest dive
3:21
Longest dive
64
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
135
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010091 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (100 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 · Sep 30, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
100 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
100 m – 149 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.1°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 7.0 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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