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Salish Sea

Raptor – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raptor
Raptor Confirmed in the catalog @7009
May 27 – Jun 28, 2015 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Jun 2015

152 m
Deepest dive
7:00
Longest dive
66
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
33

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 2015205 m14.8°C152 m
Jun 2, 201526 m10.4°C21 m
Jun 28, 201526 m13.1°C16 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 27, 2015 — seafloor 205 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)May 27Jun 2, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Jun 2Jun 28, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jun 28

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

Dives

152 m
Deepest dive
7:00
Longest dive
66
Dives
18 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
33
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200152 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (205 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 27, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
205 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 205 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 14.8°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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