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Salish Sea

Telson – Residency

9th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Telson
Telson Confirmed in the catalog @104371
Jul 7 – Sep 1, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2025

66 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
56

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 7, 2025109 m—66 m
Jul 16, 202590 m—66 m
Jul 24, 202582 m—31 m
Sep 1, 202531 m—28 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 7, 2025 — seafloor 109 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 16, 2025 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 24, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jul 24Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 31 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Sep 1

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

Dives

66 m
Deepest dive
2:47
Longest dive
58
Dives
19 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
56
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010066 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (109 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 7, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
109 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
31 m – 109 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 5.0 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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