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North Pacific

Golf ball – Residency

Fluke of Golf ball
Golf ball Confirmed in the catalog @814
Nov 26 – Dec 9, 2017 · North Pacific

North Pacific · Nov – Dec 2017

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Deepest dive
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Longest dive
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Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
13

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Nov 26, 2017893 m——
Nov 29, 2017438 m——
Dec 8, 2017612 m——
Dec 9, 2017279 m——

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Nov 26, 2017 — seafloor 893 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 26Nov 29, 2017 — seafloor 438 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Nov 29Dec 8, 2017 — seafloor 612 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 8Dec 9, 2017 — seafloor 279 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Dec 9

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
4
Sightings
13
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 · Dec 9, 2017

measured
Seafloor depth
279 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
279 m – 893 m
Sea-surface temperature
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Distance from shore
3.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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