Salish Sea

Guardian – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Guardian Confirmed in the catalog @7553
Jul 6 – Sep 19, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2024

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
75

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 6, 2024108 m——
Jul 28, 2024255 m——
Aug 17, 2024280 m——
Sep 2, 2024251 m——
Sep 19, 202456 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 6, 2024 — seafloor 108 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 6Jul 28, 2024 — seafloor 255 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jul 28Aug 17, 2024 — seafloor 280 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 17Sep 2, 2024 — seafloor 251 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 2Sep 19, 2024 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Sep 19

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

Dives

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
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Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
75
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
02550startdive sequence (illustrative)

Modelled from the published dive-behaviour distribution. 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 19, 2024

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
56 m – 280 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
1.0 km – 6.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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