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Clarence Strait

Vancouver – Residency

23rd sighting in Clarence Strait
Fluke of Vancouver
Vancouver Confirmed in the catalog @14874
May 26 – Sep 3, 2026 · Clarence Strait

Cold Water Season

Channels full of fish, camera crews spotting my fluke through the whole feast.

58 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
52
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
99

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 26, 202632 m9.6°C29 m
Jun 18, 2026201 m11.5°C58 m
Aug 21, 202627 m14.2°C17 m
Aug 25, 202662 m14.9°C45 m
Sep 3, 202642 m13.2°C13 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
May 26, 2026 — seafloor 32 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)May 26Jun 18, 2026 — seafloor 201 m (measured), deepest dive 58 m (modelled)Jun 18Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 27 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 25, 2026 — seafloor 62 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Aug 25Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 42 m (measured), deepest dive 13 m (modelled)Sep 3

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

Dives

58 m
Deepest dive
2:45
Longest dive
52
Dives
17 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
99
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010058 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (201 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 18, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
201 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
27 m – 201 m
Sea-surface temperature
9.6°C – 14.9°C
Distance from shore
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 5 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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