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Salish Sea

Nalu – Residency

23rd sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Nalu
Nalu Confirmed in the catalog @14514
Sep 6 – 14, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring-Thick Autumn Waters

These inlets fed me well this September—every bait ball exactly where I expected it.

47 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
16
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
8

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 6, 2026162 m—47 m
Sep 14, 202647 m—37 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 6, 2026 — seafloor 162 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Sep 6Sep 14, 2026 — seafloor 47 m (measured), deepest dive 37 m (modelled)Sep 14

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

Dives

47 m
Deepest dive
1:57
Longest dive
16
Dives
22 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
8
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0255047 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (162 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 6, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
162 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
47 m – 162 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 2.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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