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Salish Sea

Aerie – Residency

90th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Aerie
Aerie Confirmed in the catalog @14386
Aug 16 – Nov 29, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Nov 2025

85 m
Deepest dive
3:23
Longest dive
87
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
105

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 16, 202593 m14.8°C77 m
Aug 22, 202555 m14.2°C35 m
Aug 28, 202575 m16.8°C58 m
Sep 3, 2025188 m15.2°C85 m
Sep 25, 2025135 m13.4°C69 m
Sep 25, 2025144 m13.5°C10 m
Sep 28, 2025157 m14.2°C40 m
Nov 29, 202544 m10.0°C34 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 16, 2025 — seafloor 93 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 22, 2025 — seafloor 55 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 22Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 75 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Aug 28Sep 3, 2025 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 85 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 25, 2025 — seafloor 135 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 25, 2025 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 10 m (modelled)Sep 25Sep 28, 2025 — seafloor 157 m (measured), deepest dive 40 m (modelled)Sep 28Nov 29, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 34 m (modelled)Nov 29

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

Dives

85 m
Deepest dive
3:23
Longest dive
87
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
105
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010085 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (188 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 · Sep 3, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
188 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
44 m – 188 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.0°C – 16.8°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 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.

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