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Salish Sea

Summit – Residency

25th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Summit
Summit Confirmed in the catalog @13616
Aug 31 – Oct 12, 2026 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea, Early Autumn Rhythm

Years of showing up here and this stretch still felt prime.

117 m
Deepest dive
5:01
Longest dive
59
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
42

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 31, 202689 m14.8°C71 m
Oct 4, 2026116 m—55 m
Oct 11, 2026194 m—85 m
Oct 12, 2026173 m—117 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Aug 31Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 116 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Oct 11Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 117 m (modelled)Oct 12

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

Dives

117 m
Deepest dive
5:01
Longest dive
59
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
42
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150117 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (173 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 · Oct 12, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
173 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 194 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 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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