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Salish Sea

Vine – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Vine
Vine Confirmed in the catalog @121902
Jun 15 – Oct 7, 2026 · Salish Sea

Same Bay, Familiar Bend

Green water again, herring stacked deep, faces looking up.

201 m
Deepest dive
7:37
Longest dive
92
Dives
Sightings
10
Days between first and last sighting
114
Deepest dive on record
201 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 15, 2026176 m16.0°C57 m
Jun 23, 2026236 m14.5°C110 m
Jul 3, 2026240 m13.1°C20 m
Jul 27, 2026164 m15.2°C140 m
Jul 31, 2026252 m14.4°C147 m
Aug 3, 2026115 m15.1°C60 m
Aug 10, 2026496 m15.0°C201 m
Sep 3, 2026143 m14.8°C60 m
Sep 3, 202649 m—44 m
Oct 7, 2026237 m—34 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 15, 2026 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jun 15Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 236 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 3, 2026 — seafloor 240 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Jul 3Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 140 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 252 m (measured), deepest dive 147 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 3, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 10, 2026 — seafloor 496 m (measured), deepest dive 201 m (modelled)Aug 10Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 49 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 3Oct 7, 2026 — seafloor 237 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Oct 7

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

Dives

201 m
Deepest dive
7:37
Longest dive
92
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
10
Sightings
114
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0125250201 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (496 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 10, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
496 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 10 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
49 m – 496 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.1°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 9.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 10 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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