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Salish Sea

Vortex – Residency

43rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Vortex
Vortex Confirmed in the catalog @106327
Jun 2 – Oct 4, 2026 · Salish Sea

Home Waters, Wide Open

Herring season and I'm surfacing everywhere at once, loving it.

145 m
Deepest dive
4:33
Longest dive
106
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
123

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 2, 2026100 m11.2°C45 m
Jun 4, 202695 m10.4°C60 m
Jun 6, 2026132 m10.6°C71 m
Jun 7, 2026141 m10.5°C110 m
Jun 18, 2026177 m15.5°C72 m
Jun 28, 2026172 m13.7°C145 m
Jul 2, 2026103 m13.1°C91 m
Sep 7, 2026125 m15.4°C69 m
Sep 8, 2026103 m15.9°C25 m
Oct 4, 2026131 m13.7°C101 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 2, 2026 — seafloor 100 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jun 2Jun 4, 2026 — seafloor 95 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 4Jun 6, 2026 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 7, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jun 7Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 177 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Jun 18Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 2, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 91 m (modelled)Jul 2Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 103 m (measured), deepest dive 25 m (modelled)Sep 8Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 101 m (modelled)Oct 4

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

Dives

145 m
Deepest dive
4:33
Longest dive
106
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
123
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150145 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (172 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

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Place

Where this happened · Jun 28, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
172 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
95 m – 177 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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