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Salish Sea

Malachite – Residency

25th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Malachite
Malachite Confirmed in the catalog @73874
May 25 – Aug 15, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Aug 2024

141 m
Deepest dive
5:52
Longest dive
138
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
82

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 25, 202495 m10.2°C77 m
May 26, 202492 m10.1°C48 m
May 27, 2024171 m9.0°C116 m
May 27, 2024153 m9.0°C93 m
May 27, 2024175 m8.9°C76 m
Jun 4, 202453 m11.4°C38 m
Jun 5, 202459 m11.3°C42 m
Jun 29, 202490 m18.2°C58 m
Aug 15, 20247 m18.7°C6 m
Aug 15, 2024239 m19.9°C141 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 25, 2024 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)May 25May 26, 2024 — seafloor 92 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 26May 27, 2024 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 116 m (modelled)May 27May 27, 2024 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)May 27May 27, 2024 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)May 27Jun 4, 2024 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 5, 2024 — seafloor 59 m (measured), deepest dive 42 m (modelled)Jun 5Jun 29, 2024 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 29Aug 15, 2024 — seafloor 7 m (measured), deepest dive 6 m (modelled)Aug 15Aug 15, 2024 — seafloor 239 m (measured), deepest dive 141 m (modelled)Aug 15

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

Dives

141 m
Deepest dive
5:52
Longest dive
138
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
82
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150141 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (239 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 15, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
239 m
Sea-surface temperature
19.9°C
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
7 m – 239 m
Sea-surface temperature
8.9°C – 19.9°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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