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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

12th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
Jul 9 – Oct 29, 2015 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2015

75 m
Deepest dive
3:58
Longest dive
142
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
112

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 9, 201522 m15.0°C20 m
Jul 16, 2015131 m13.0°C75 m
Jul 22, 201568 m12.9°C61 m
Aug 2, 2015128 m11.8°C66 m
Aug 5, 201559 m11.5°C40 m
Sep 16, 201526 m11.6°C23 m
Sep 17, 201581 m11.7°C65 m
Oct 16, 201522 m11.1°C12 m
Oct 18, 2015102 m10.8°C17 m
Oct 29, 2015177 m10.8°C53 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 9, 2015 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 16, 2015 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 22, 2015 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 61 m (modelled)Jul 22Aug 2, 2015 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 5, 2015 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Aug 5Sep 16, 2015 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 17, 2015 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Sep 17Oct 16, 2015 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 12 m (modelled)Oct 16Oct 18, 2015 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 29, 2015 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Oct 29

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

Dives

75 m
Deepest dive
3:58
Longest dive
142
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
112
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010075 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (131 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 · Jul 16, 2015

measured
Seafloor depth
131 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.0°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 177 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C – 15.0°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 10 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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