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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

85th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
Jun 7 – Nov 19, 2022 · Salish Sea

Long Summer Home

Spent months in familiar waters, surfacing where the currents know my name.

126 m
Deepest dive
5:29
Longest dive
203
Dives
Sightings
17
Days between first and last sighting
165

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 7, 2022132 m9.9°C120 m
Jun 7, 202241 m9.7°C35 m
Jul 8, 2022139 m12.1°C30 m
Jul 25, 2022143 m12.3°C72 m
Jul 30, 2022122 m13.3°C92 m
Aug 5, 202274 m13.5°C68 m
Aug 5, 2022166 m12.5°C126 m
Aug 9, 2022152 m13.1°C77 m
Aug 11, 2022156 m12.5°C74 m
Aug 13, 202210 m13.6°C9 m
Aug 18, 2022105 m13.2°C36 m
Aug 20, 2022108 m12.4°C54 m
Aug 29, 2022175 m13.0°C87 m
Oct 13, 2022128 m10.9°C57 m
Oct 14, 2022125 m10.9°C57 m
Oct 29, 2022106 m10.1°C93 m
Nov 19, 2022149 m9.1°C47 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 7, 2022 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 7, 2022 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jul 8, 2022 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 30 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2022 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 25Jul 30, 2022 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2022 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 5, 2022 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 9, 2022 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 11, 2022 — seafloor 156 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Aug 13, 2022 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Aug 13Aug 18, 2022 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 20, 2022 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2022 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 29Oct 13, 2022 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 14, 2022 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 29, 2022 — seafloor 106 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Oct 29Nov 19, 2022 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
5:29
Longest dive
203
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
17
Sightings
165
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 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 · Aug 5, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
166 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 17 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
10 m – 175 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.1°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 17 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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