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Salish Sea

BCY1454 – Residency

50th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of BCY1454
BCY1454 Confirmed in the catalog @109384
Aug 5 – Oct 3, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Good Company

Late summer in these channels, someone always nearby, someone always watching.

109 m
Deepest dive
3:54
Longest dive
166
Dives
Sightings
12
Days between first and last sighting
59
Deepest dive on record
109 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 5, 2026102 m14.6°C83 m
Aug 21, 2026175 m14.9°C109 m
Sep 7, 2026105 m15.4°C85 m
Sep 11, 202655 m16.0°C24 m
Sep 16, 202655 m15.4°C50 m
Sep 16, 2026151 m15.4°C102 m
Sep 19, 202641 m15.9°C36 m
Sep 22, 20269 m14.6°C8 m
Sep 26, 202658 m14.2°C49 m
Sep 26, 202633 m14.2°C23 m
Sep 27, 202641 m13.9°C17 m
Oct 3, 2026124 m13.7°C66 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 5, 2026 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Aug 5Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 16, 2026 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 50 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 16, 2026 — seafloor 151 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Sep 16Sep 19, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 36 m (modelled)Sep 19Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 9 m (measured), deepest dive 8 m (modelled)Sep 22Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 58 m (measured), deepest dive 49 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 26, 2026 — seafloor 33 m (measured), deepest dive 23 m (modelled)Sep 26Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 27Oct 3, 2026 — seafloor 124 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Oct 3

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

Dives

109 m
Deepest dive
3:54
Longest dive
166
Dives
20 m
Avg dive depth
12
Sightings
59
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150109 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Place

Where this happened · Aug 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 12 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
9 m – 175 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 12 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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