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Salish Sea

BCX2463 – Residency

11th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of BCX2463
BCX2463 Confirmed in the catalog @97839
Sep 7 – Oct 18, 2024 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Sep – Oct 2024

110 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
120
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
41

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 7, 202418 m—15 m
Sep 7, 2024137 m—110 m
Sep 14, 202439 m—23 m
Sep 22, 2024122 m—39 m
Sep 30, 202456 m—41 m
Oct 4, 202438 m—29 m
Oct 5, 202426 m—20 m
Oct 6, 202473 m—60 m
Oct 18, 202446 m—38 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 7, 2024 — seafloor 18 m (measured), deepest dive 15 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 7, 2024 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 14, 2024 — seafloor 39 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 22, 2024 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 30, 2024 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 41 m (modelled)Sep 30Oct 4, 2024 — seafloor 38 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 5, 2024 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Oct 5Oct 6, 2024 — seafloor 73 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Oct 6Oct 18, 2024 — seafloor 46 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Oct 18

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
3:13
Longest dive
120
Dives
16 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
41
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (137 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 7, 2024

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

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
18 m – 137 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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