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Salish Sea

Andromeda – Residency

17th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Andromeda
Andromeda Confirmed in the catalog @10987
Aug 18 – Nov 7, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Nov 2025

98 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
46
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
81

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 18, 2025166 m—80 m
Aug 19, 2025163 m—86 m
Aug 19, 2025159 m—98 m
Nov 7, 202593 m—26 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 18, 2025 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 18Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 159 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Aug 19Nov 7, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 26 m (modelled)Nov 7

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
4:16
Longest dive
46
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
81
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (159 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 19, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
159 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
93 m – 166 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
7.0 km – 11.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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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