Pepper – Residency
36th sighting in Salish Sea
Pepper @11001
May 29 – Aug 23, 2026 · Salish Sea
Green Water, Full Season
Whole summer in this cold shelf water, spotted over and over — never gets old.
180 m
Deepest dive
6:51
Longest dive
79
Dives
- Sightings
- 7
- Days between first and last sighting
- 85
- Deepest dive on record
- 180 m · this residency
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2026 | 162 m | 12.0°C | 139 m |
| Jun 23, 2026 | 131 m | 14.7°C | 32 m |
| Jul 3, 2026 | 131 m | 13.1°C | 60 m |
| Jul 13, 2026 | 128 m | 14.6°C | 67 m |
| Jul 17, 2026 | 264 m | 15.9°C | 48 m |
| Aug 4, 2026 | 151 m | 15.2°C | 43 m |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 206 m | 14.7°C | 180 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
180 m
Deepest dive
6:51
Longest dive
79
Dives
25 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
85
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (206 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Aug 23, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 206 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 14.7°C
- Distance from shore
- 5.0 km
Across the residency · 7 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 128 m – 264 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 12.0°C – 15.9°C
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km – 5.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 7 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.