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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

59th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
May 26 – Oct 26, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Oct 2019

202 m
Deepest dive
6:34
Longest dive
288
Dives
Sightings
26
Days between first and last sighting
153
Deepest dive on record
202 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 26, 201971 m10.1°C54 m
Jun 15, 2019332 m14.0°C67 m
Jun 18, 2019107 m10.8°C82 m
Jun 28, 201942 m11.9°C33 m
Jun 29, 2019160 m11.8°C86 m
Jul 6, 201992 m11.4°C72 m
Jul 22, 2019160 m11.3°C43 m
Jul 25, 201992 m11.7°C41 m
Jul 27, 201955 m12.8°C36 m
Jul 28, 2019128 m12.9°C62 m
Aug 3, 2019107 m11.9°C21 m
Aug 8, 201969 m11.3°C53 m
Aug 12, 2019109 m12.0°C67 m
Aug 21, 2019149 m12.5°C121 m
Aug 25, 2019169 m12.0°C90 m
Sep 4, 2019167 m11.4°C104 m
Sep 7, 2019227 m14.5°C202 m
Sep 15, 2019101 m11.6°C71 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 26, 2019 — seafloor 71 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)May 26Jun 15, 2019 — seafloor 332 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Jun 18, 2019 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jun 28, 2019 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Jun 29, 2019 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Jul 6, 2019 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jul 6Jul 22, 2019 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 43 m (modelled)Jul 25, 2019 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Jul 27, 2019 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Jul 28, 2019 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Aug 3, 2019 — seafloor 107 m (measured), deepest dive 21 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 8, 2019 — seafloor 69 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 12, 2019 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Aug 21, 2019 — seafloor 149 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Aug 25, 2019 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Sep 4, 2019 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 7, 2019 — seafloor 227 m (measured), deepest dive 202 m (modelled)Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Oct 4, 2019 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Oct 5, 2019 — seafloor 112 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Oct 6, 2019 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 9, 2019 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Oct 15, 2019 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Oct 23, 2019 — seafloor 101 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Oct 24, 2019 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Oct 26, 2019 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Oct 26

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

Dives

202 m
Deepest dive
6:34
Longest dive
288
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
26
Sightings
153
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250202 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (227 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 · Sep 7, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
227 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 26 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 332 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C – 14.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 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 26 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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