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Salish Sea

Achilles – Residency

9th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Achilles
Achilles Confirmed in the catalog @104245
May 31 – Aug 27, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Aug 2025

119 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
88

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 31, 202550 m—45 m
Jun 11, 202526 m—22 m
Jun 28, 2025356 m—59 m
Jul 15, 2025130 m—66 m
Jul 15, 2025139 m—119 m
Aug 27, 202560 m—36 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 31, 2025 — seafloor 50 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)May 31Jun 11, 2025 — seafloor 26 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 28, 2025 — seafloor 356 m (measured), deepest dive 59 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 139 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Jul 15Aug 27, 2025 — seafloor 60 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Aug 27

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

Dives

119 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
59
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
88
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150119 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (139 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 · Jul 15, 2025

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

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
26 m – 356 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 12.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 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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