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Salish Sea

Pepper – Residency

29th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Pepper
Pepper Confirmed in the catalog @11001
Jun 26 – Sep 25, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Sep 2025

123 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
138
Dives
Sightings
11
Days between first and last sighting
92

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 26, 202591 m13.2°C53 m
Jun 26, 202556 m13.2°C46 m
Jun 26, 202591 m13.1°C69 m
Jun 26, 202574 m13.1°C39 m
Jun 26, 202534 m13.1°C31 m
Jul 18, 202529 m13.6°C22 m
Jul 23, 202567 m15.3°C56 m
Jul 26, 202568 m14.8°C58 m
Jul 31, 2025190 m18.4°C74 m
Aug 8, 2025308 m14.2°C103 m
Sep 25, 2025286 m14.1°C123 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 26, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 56 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 91 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 74 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 26, 2025 — seafloor 34 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jun 26Jul 18, 2025 — seafloor 29 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jul 18Jul 23, 2025 — seafloor 67 m (measured), deepest dive 56 m (modelled)Jul 23Jul 26, 2025 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jul 26Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 190 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 8, 2025 — seafloor 308 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Aug 8Sep 25, 2025 — seafloor 286 m (measured), deepest dive 123 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

123 m
Deepest dive
3:44
Longest dive
138
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
11
Sightings
92
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150123 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (286 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 · Sep 25, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
286 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 11 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
29 m – 308 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 18.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 11 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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