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Salish Sea

Seltzer – Residency

22nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Seltzer
Seltzer Confirmed in the catalog @72191
Jun 19 – Sep 27, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Sep 2024

165 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
157
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
100
Deepest dive on record
165 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 2024178 m10.7°C35 m
Jun 22, 2024146 m11.7°C50 m
Jun 29, 2024172 m10.6°C82 m
Jun 30, 2024160 m10.6°C27 m
Jun 30, 2024160 m10.7°C73 m
Jun 30, 2024191 m10.6°C165 m
Jul 9, 2024143 m12.5°C70 m
Jul 9, 2024142 m12.3°C55 m
Jul 12, 2024171 m12.4°C88 m
Aug 12, 202453 m12.2°C47 m
Sep 19, 202442 m13.1°C37 m
Sep 27, 2024160 m13.6°C114 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 19, 2024 — seafloor 178 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 22, 2024 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jun 29Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Jun 30Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 30Jun 30, 2024 — seafloor 191 m (measured), deepest dive 165 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 9, 2024 — seafloor 142 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jul 9Jul 12, 2024 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jul 12Aug 12, 2024 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Aug 12Sep 19, 2024 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 27, 2024 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Sep 27

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

Dives

165 m
Deepest dive
5:43
Longest dive
157
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
100
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200165 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (191 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 · Jun 30, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
191 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
42 m – 191 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C – 13.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 10.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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