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Salish Sea

Skipper – Residency

20th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Skipper
Skipper Confirmed in the catalog @140468
Jun 26 – 30, 2026 · Salish Sea

Full Green Water, Full Speed

Whole Salish Sea humming with lunch and I'm first in line.

88 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
45
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
4

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 26, 2026219 m15.6°C88 m
Jun 27, 202630 m—22 m
Jun 30, 2026186 m13.5°C84 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 26, 2026 — seafloor 219 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Jun 26Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 30 m (measured), deepest dive 22 m (modelled)Jun 27Jun 30, 2026 — seafloor 186 m (measured), deepest dive 84 m (modelled)Jun 30

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

Dives

88 m
Deepest dive
3:17
Longest dive
45
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
4
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010088 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (219 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 · Jun 26, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
219 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.6°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
30 m – 219 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.5°C – 15.6°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 4.0 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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