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Salish Sea

Wisp - † – Residency

9th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Wisp - †
Wisp - † Confirmed in the catalog @72413
Sep 10 – 28, 2023 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep 2023

140 m
Deepest dive
5:23
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
18
Deepest dive on record
140 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 10, 2023405 m—140 m
Sep 23, 2023146 m—98 m
Sep 28, 2023173 m—130 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 10, 2023 — seafloor 405 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Sep 10Sep 23, 2023 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Sep 23Sep 28, 2023 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 130 m (modelled)Sep 28

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

Dives

140 m
Deepest dive
5:23
Longest dive
34
Dives
38 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
18
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150140 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (405 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 · Sep 10, 2023

measured
Seafloor depth
405 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
146 m – 405 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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