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Salish Sea

Starry Knight / Ser – Residency

6th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Starry Knight / Ser
Starry Knight / Ser Confirmed in the catalog @125014
Jul 16 – Aug 30, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2025

126 m
Deepest dive
4:11
Longest dive
30
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 16, 202577 m—39 m
Jul 25, 202547 m—31 m
Aug 20, 202577 m—22 m
Aug 30, 2025336 m—126 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 16, 2025 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 16Jul 25, 2025 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Jul 25Aug 20, 2025 — seafloor 77 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Aug 20Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 336 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
4:11
Longest dive
30
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
45
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (336 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 30, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
336 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
13.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 336 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 13.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 4 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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