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North Pacific

Skimmer – Residency

Fluke of Skimmer
Skimmer Confirmed in the catalog @125715
Jun 24 – Aug 26, 2026 · North Pacific

This Bay Knows Me

Cameras keep finding my flukes in this same green water—works every summer.

10 m
Deepest dive
0:51
Longest dive
40
Dives
Sightings
8
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 24, 2026-21 m15.7°C—
Jun 25, 2026-13 m15.9°C—
Aug 14, 2026-35 m16.3°C—
Aug 17, 2026-9 m16.3°C—
Aug 19, 2026-1 m16.7°C—
Aug 22, 202611 m16.6°C10 m
Aug 24, 20261 m16.6°C1 m
Aug 26, 2026-4 m16.4°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 24, 2026 — seafloor -21 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 24Jun 25, 2026 — seafloor -13 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Jun 25Aug 14, 2026 — seafloor -35 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 14Aug 17, 2026 — seafloor -9 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 17Aug 19, 2026 — seafloor -1 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 19Aug 22, 2026 — seafloor 11 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 24, 2026 — seafloor 1 m (measured), deepest dive 1 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor -4 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Aug 26

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

Dives

10 m
Deepest dive
0:51
Longest dive
40
Dives
4 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
63
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255010 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (11 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
11 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
-35 m – 11 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.7°C – 16.7°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 8 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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