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Salish Sea

Masquerade – Residency

2nd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Masquerade
Masquerade Confirmed in the catalog @7381
Sep 13 – Oct 21, 2018 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep – Oct 2018

127 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
23
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
38
Deepest dive on record
127 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 13, 2018176 m—127 m
Oct 21, 2018116 m—86 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 13, 2018 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 127 m (modelled)Sep 13Oct 21, 2018 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Oct 21

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

Dives

127 m
Deepest dive
4:36
Longest dive
23
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
38
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150127 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (176 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 13, 2018

measured
Seafloor depth
176 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
116 m – 176 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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