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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
May 2 – Sep 30, 2017 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2017

128 m
Deepest dive
4:43
Longest dive
119
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
151

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 2, 201791 m9.3°C41 m
Jun 25, 2017153 m11.9°C95 m
Jul 11, 2017169 m11.5°C128 m
Jul 30, 2017172 m13.3°C108 m
Aug 1, 2017154 m13.3°C48 m
Aug 18, 201796 m11.7°C62 m
Sep 30, 2017120 m10.8°C105 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 2, 2017 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)May 2Jun 25, 2017 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jun 25Jul 11, 2017 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 128 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 30, 2017 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jul 30Aug 1, 2017 — seafloor 154 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 18, 2017 — seafloor 96 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 18Sep 30, 2017 — seafloor 120 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Sep 30

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

Dives

128 m
Deepest dive
4:43
Longest dive
119
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
151
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150128 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (169 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 11, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
169 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
91 m – 172 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.3°C – 13.3°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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