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Salish Sea

Lunar – Residency

2nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lunar
Lunar Confirmed in the catalog @7211
Sep 16 – Nov 7, 2010 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep – Nov 2010

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
53

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 16, 201052 m11.0°C—
Nov 7, 2010162 m9.7°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 16, 2010 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 16Nov 7, 2010 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 7

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
53
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 · Nov 7, 2010

measured
Seafloor depth
162 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 162 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.7°C – 11.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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