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Salish Sea

Beso – Residency

9th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Beso
Beso Confirmed in the catalog @15729
Sep 3 – 27, 2026 · Salish Sea

Autumn in the Channels

These green waters know my tail better than I do.

120 m
Deepest dive
4:27
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
24
Deepest dive on record
120 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 3, 2026193 m—114 m
Sep 3, 2026185 m—120 m
Sep 4, 2026195 m—105 m
Sep 7, 202690 m—17 m
Sep 27, 2026187 m—70 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 3, 2026 — seafloor 193 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 185 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 195 m (measured), deepest dive 105 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 90 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 27, 2026 — seafloor 187 m (measured), deepest dive 70 m (modelled)Sep 27

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

Dives

120 m
Deepest dive
4:27
Longest dive
60
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
24
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150120 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (185 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, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
185 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
90 m – 195 m
Sea-surface temperature
—
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 5 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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