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Salish Sea

Lunar – Residency

26th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lunar
Lunar Confirmed in the catalog @7211
Oct 5 – 10, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Oct 2022

146 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
20
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
5

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 5, 2022179 m13.9°C146 m
Oct 10, 202297 m12.5°C65 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 5, 2022 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 146 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 10, 2022 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Oct 10

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

Dives

146 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
20
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
5
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150146 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (179 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 5, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
179 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
97 m – 179 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.5°C – 13.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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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