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Salish Sea

2022 calf of Ocean – Residency

17th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of 2022 calf of Ocean
2022 calf of Ocean Confirmed in the catalog @106335
Jun 6 – Aug 6, 2026 · Salish Sea

Home Water, Mid Summer

Every kelp point out here still fits me like it's mine.

86 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
21
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
60

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 6, 2026123 m10.6°C71 m
Aug 6, 2026293 m15.6°C86 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 123 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jun 6Aug 6, 2026 — seafloor 293 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 6

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

Dives

86 m
Deepest dive
3:08
Longest dive
21
Dives
24 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
60
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010086 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (293 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 · Aug 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
293 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
123 m – 293 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
10.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 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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