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Salish Sea

Seabird – Residency

26th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Seabird
Seabird Confirmed in the catalog @11253
Jun 11 – Aug 13, 2026 · Salish Sea

Summer Home Waters

These green channels know my shape by now — herring's in, I'm right where I belong.

144 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
134
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
63

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 11, 202680 m11.7°C31 m
Jun 13, 2026183 m11.4°C84 m
Jun 14, 2026166 m11.6°C144 m
Jun 15, 2026179 m12.8°C68 m
Jun 17, 2026141 m16.2°C98 m
Jun 20, 2026266 m16.4°C24 m
Jun 24, 2026118 m15.6°C95 m
Aug 4, 2026176 m15.3°C16 m
Aug 13, 202636 m15.9°C33 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 11, 2026 — seafloor 80 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jun 11Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 14, 2026 — seafloor 166 m (measured), deepest dive 144 m (modelled)Jun 14Jun 15, 2026 — seafloor 179 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 17, 2026 — seafloor 141 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Jun 17Jun 20, 2026 — seafloor 266 m (measured), deepest dive 24 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor 118 m (measured), deepest dive 95 m (modelled)Jun 24Aug 4, 2026 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 16 m (modelled)Aug 4Aug 13, 2026 — seafloor 36 m (measured), deepest dive 33 m (modelled)Aug 13

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

Dives

144 m
Deepest dive
4:24
Longest dive
134
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
63
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150144 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (166 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 · Jun 14, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
166 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.6°C
Distance from shore
7.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
36 m – 266 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.4°C – 16.4°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 9 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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