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Salish Sea

Seltzer – Residency

7th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Seltzer
Seltzer Confirmed in the catalog @72191
Jul 15 – Oct 18, 2022 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2022

104 m
Deepest dive
4:20
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
95

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 2022165 m10.8°C55 m
Jul 19, 2022157 m11.3°C49 m
Aug 6, 2022234 m13.6°C26 m
Oct 18, 2022148 m11.1°C104 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 15, 2022 — seafloor 165 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 19, 2022 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Jul 19Aug 6, 2022 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Aug 6Oct 18, 2022 — seafloor 148 m (measured), deepest dive 104 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

104 m
Deepest dive
4:20
Longest dive
30
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
95
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150104 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (148 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, 2022

measured
Seafloor depth
148 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.1°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
148 m – 234 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.8°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 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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