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Salish Sea

Forge – Residency

27th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Forge
Forge Confirmed in the catalog @103268
May 22 – Jun 20, 2026 · Salish Sea

Narrows, Early Summer Crowd

Herring's in, the bay's full of familiar breath—my kind of noisy.

149 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
39
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
29

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 22, 2026330 m15.5°C149 m
May 22, 2026376 m14.9°C36 m
Jun 20, 2026175 m17.2°C108 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 22, 2026 — seafloor 330 m (measured), deepest dive 149 m (modelled)May 22May 22, 2026 — seafloor 376 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)May 22Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 108 m (modelled)Jun 20

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

Dives

149 m
Deepest dive
5:17
Longest dive
39
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
29
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150149 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (330 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 · May 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
330 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.5°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m – 376 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C – 17.2°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NOAA OISST sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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