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Salish Sea

Olympus – Residency

47th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Olympus
Olympus Confirmed in the catalog @16946
May 3 – Aug 23, 2026 · Salish Sea

Green Water, Full House

Every channel here still knows my name before I round the bend.

126 m
Deepest dive
6:17
Longest dive
58
Dives
Sightings
8
Days between first and last sighting
111

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
May 3, 202640 m12.4°C28 m
May 4, 202697 m11.0°C65 m
Jun 6, 2026378 m16.0°C92 m
Jun 23, 2026174 m16.2°C126 m
Jul 11, 2026136 m14.2°C51 m
Aug 16, 2026337 m16.4°C69 m
Aug 21, 2026400 m15.2°C28 m
Aug 23, 2026167 m15.4°C53 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 3, 2026 — seafloor 40 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)May 3May 4, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)May 4Jun 6, 2026 — seafloor 378 m (measured), deepest dive 92 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 23, 2026 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 126 m (modelled)Jun 23Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 136 m (measured), deepest dive 51 m (modelled)Jul 11Aug 16, 2026 — seafloor 337 m (measured), deepest dive 69 m (modelled)Aug 16Aug 21, 2026 — seafloor 400 m (measured), deepest dive 28 m (modelled)Aug 21Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 53 m (modelled)Aug 23

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

Dives

126 m
Deepest dive
6:17
Longest dive
58
Dives
34 m
Avg dive depth
8
Sightings
111
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150126 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (174 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 23, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.2°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 8 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
40 m – 400 m
Sea-surface temperature
11.0°C – 16.4°C
Distance from shore
1.0 km – 11.0 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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