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Salish Sea

Stitch – Residency

66th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Stitch
Stitch Confirmed in the catalog @7102
Oct 12 – Nov 28, 2020 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Oct – Nov 2020

70 m
Deepest dive
2:42
Longest dive
66
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
47

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 12, 202074 m10.2°C48 m
Oct 14, 202028 m10.4°C10 m
Oct 18, 202095 m10.8°C70 m
Oct 22, 2020121 m10.9°C68 m
Nov 28, 2020237 m8.9°C46 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Oct 12, 2020 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 14, 2020 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Oct 14Oct 18, 2020 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Oct 18Oct 22, 2020 — seafloor 121 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Oct 22Nov 28, 2020 — seafloor 237 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Nov 28

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

Dives

70 m
Deepest dive
2:42
Longest dive
66
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
47
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010070 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (95 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 18, 2020

measured
Seafloor depth
95 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
28 m – 237 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.9°C – 10.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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