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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

104th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
May 29 – Oct 8, 2023 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea Summer

Same familiar waters calling me back through another long season of plenty.

93 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
247
Dives
Sightings
19
Days between first and last sighting
132

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 29, 2023118 m10.7°C47 m
Jun 11, 2023151 m11.4°C89 m
Jun 11, 2023145 m10.6°C71 m
Jun 11, 202351 m10.3°C43 m
Jun 12, 2023126 m10.9°C45 m
Jul 10, 2023109 m11.6°C64 m
Jul 12, 2023128 m12.1°C57 m
Jul 19, 202341 m12.3°C27 m
Jul 26, 202327 m12.4°C19 m
Jul 27, 2023138 m12.4°C87 m
Aug 7, 202348 m11.3°C38 m
Aug 14, 202395 m13.2°C32 m
Aug 27, 2023101 m13.6°C43 m
Aug 28, 2023110 m12.2°C68 m
Aug 29, 202381 m12.3°C66 m
Aug 30, 2023132 m11.9°C82 m
Sep 1, 202327 m11.2°C24 m
Oct 8, 2023155 m11.4°C93 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, 2023 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)May 29Jun 11, 2023 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 89 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2023 — seafloor 145 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2023 — seafloor 51 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jun 12, 2023 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jun 12Jul 10, 2023 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Jul 12, 2023 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 19, 2023 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2023 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 27, 2023 — seafloor 138 m (measured), deepest dive 87 m (modelled)Aug 7, 2023 — seafloor 48 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 14, 2023 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Aug 27, 2023 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Aug 27Aug 28, 2023 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Aug 29, 2023 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 30, 2023 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Sep 1, 2023 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 1Oct 8, 2023 — seafloor 155 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Oct 8, 2023 — seafloor 244 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)

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

Dives

93 m
Deepest dive
4:40
Longest dive
247
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
19
Sightings
132
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010093 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (155 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 · Oct 8, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
155 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 19 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 244 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.3°C – 13.6°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 19 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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