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Salish Sea

Vortex – Residency

33rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Vortex
Vortex Confirmed in the catalog @106327
May 27 – Sep 27, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · May – Sep 2025

101 m
Deepest dive
4:15
Longest dive
222
Dives
Sightings
19
Days between first and last sighting
123

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 27, 2025169 m11.3°C48 m
Jun 7, 2025151 m12.7°C101 m
Jun 8, 2025104 m13.3°C76 m
Jun 11, 2025122 m14.3°C47 m
Jun 14, 2025167 m10.7°C79 m
Jun 21, 2025125 m12.8°C65 m
Jun 21, 2025141 m12.9°C66 m
Jun 25, 2025100 m13.1°C57 m
Jun 26, 20257 m13.2°C6 m
Jul 3, 2025110 m12.6°C46 m
Jul 4, 2025111 m12.2°C32 m
Jul 6, 2025128 m12.0°C77 m
Jul 7, 202593 m11.7°C37 m
Jul 15, 202582 m17.4°C73 m
Jul 20, 202521 m14.1°C16 m
Jul 26, 2025171 m15.1°C76 m
Aug 28, 2025125 m16.6°C97 m
Sep 1, 202581 m16.0°C40 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 27, 2025 — seafloor 169 m (measured), deepest dive 48 m (modelled)May 27Jun 7, 2025 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Jun 8, 2025 — seafloor 104 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Jun 11, 2025 — seafloor 122 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jun 14, 2025 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 21, 2025 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Jun 21, 2025 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Jun 25, 2025 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 7 m (measured), deepest dive 6 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 3, 2025 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jul 4, 2025 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Jul 6, 2025 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jul 7, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Jul 7Jul 15, 2025 — seafloor 82 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 20, 2025 — seafloor 21 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 171 m (measured), deepest dive 76 m (modelled)Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 97 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 1, 2025 — seafloor 81 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 27, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)

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

Dives

101 m
Deepest dive
4:15
Longest dive
222
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
19
Sightings
123
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150101 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (151 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 · Jun 7, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
151 m
Sea-surface temperature
12.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 19 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
7 m – 171 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.7°C – 17.4°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 14.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 19 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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