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Salish Sea

Lunar – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Lunar
Lunar Confirmed in the catalog @7211
Aug 9 – Dec 21, 2019 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Dec 2019

81 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
64
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
134

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 9, 201923 m20.5°C15 m
Sep 15, 2019147 m10.4°C55 m
Sep 16, 201931 m10.6°C27 m
Oct 21, 2019124 m9.9°C81 m
Dec 21, 2019111 m7.3°C58 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 9, 2019 — seafloor 23 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Aug 9Sep 15, 2019 — seafloor 147 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Sep 15Sep 16, 2019 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Sep 16Oct 21, 2019 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 81 m (modelled)Oct 21Dec 21, 2019 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Dec 21

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

Dives

81 m
Deepest dive
3:36
Longest dive
64
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
134
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010081 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (124 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 21, 2019

measured
Seafloor depth
124 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.9°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
23 m – 147 m
Sea-surface temperature
7.3°C – 20.5°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 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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