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Salish Sea

Sherwina – Residency

21st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Sherwina
Sherwina Confirmed in the catalog @11390
Sep 11 – 18, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Good Company

Traded shelf cold for Salish green and found plenty of company here.

137 m
Deepest dive
6:14
Longest dive
35
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
7

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 11, 2026203 m15.7°C53 m
Sep 14, 2026211 m15.0°C137 m
Sep 18, 2026150 m15.3°C119 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 203 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Sep 11Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 211 m (measured), deepest dive 137 m (modelled)Sep 14Sep 18, 2026 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 119 m (modelled)Sep 18

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

Dives

137 m
Deepest dive
6:14
Longest dive
35
Dives
37 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
7
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
075150137 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (211 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 14, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
211 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
150 m – 211 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C – 15.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 3 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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