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Salish Sea

Raccoon – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Raccoon
Raccoon Confirmed in the catalog @7218
Oct 1 – 29, 2021 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Oct 2021

94 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
44
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Oct 1, 2021104 m—62 m
Oct 2, 2021238 m—40 m
Oct 2, 2021175 m—94 m
Oct 29, 202174 m—55 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 1, 2021 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Oct 1Oct 2, 2021 — seafloor 238 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 2, 2021 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Oct 2Oct 29, 2021 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 29

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

Dives

94 m
Deepest dive
2:29
Longest dive
44
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
28
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010094 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 2, 2021

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
—

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
74 m – 238 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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