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Salish Sea

Forge – Residency

24th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Forge
Forge Confirmed in the catalog @103268
Jul 20 – Sep 16, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2025

190 m
Deepest dive
7:08
Longest dive
54
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
58
Deepest dive on record
190 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 20, 2025234 m—22 m
Aug 3, 2025270 m—122 m
Aug 4, 202552 m—38 m
Aug 8, 2025316 m—190 m
Sep 16, 2025285 m—56 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 234 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 20Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 270 m (measured), deepest dive 122 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 4, 2025 — seafloor 52 m (measured), deepest dive 38 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 8, 2025 — seafloor 316 m (measured), deepest dive 190 m (modelled)Aug 8Sep 16, 2025 — seafloor 285 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Sep 16

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

Dives

190 m
Deepest dive
7:08
Longest dive
54
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
58
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200190 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (316 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 · Aug 8, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
316 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
52 m – 316 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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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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