Riddler – Residency
133rd sighting in Lynn Canal & Stephens PassageRiddler @18248
May 20 – Oct 6, 2026 · Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage
Long Season on the Shelf
Herring stacked up, cameras clicking, dorsal notch doing all the talking.
128 m
Deepest dive
5:12
Longest dive
1,064
Dives
- Sightings
- 81
- Days between first and last sighting
- 138
Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →| Sighting | Seafloor | Sea temp | Deepest dive (modelled) |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2026 | 59 m | 7.9°C | 47 m |
| Jun 8, 2026 | 85 m | 9.4°C | 65 m |
| Jun 11, 2026 | 117 m | 9.7°C | 40 m |
| Jun 12, 2026 | 81 m | 9.8°C | 64 m |
| Jun 16, 2026 | 106 m | 9.3°C | 49 m |
| Jun 18, 2026 | 9 m | 9.4°C | 7 m |
| Jun 19, 2026 | 100 m | 9.0°C | 44 m |
| Jun 23, 2026 | 121 m | 11.4°C | 105 m |
| Jun 24, 2026 | 102 m | 11.4°C | 79 m |
| Jun 25, 2026 | 116 m | 11.5°C | 38 m |
| Jun 26, 2026 | 109 m | 11.8°C | 60 m |
| Jun 28, 2026 | 110 m | 11.7°C | 94 m |
| Jun 29, 2026 | 92 m | 11.7°C | 47 m |
| Jun 30, 2026 | 86 m | 11.7°C | 66 m |
| Jul 1, 2026 | 88 m | 11.2°C | 68 m |
| Jul 3, 2026 | 107 m | 11.3°C | 83 m |
| Jul 4, 2026 | 108 m | 11.4°C | 70 m |
| Jul 5, 2026 | 90 m | 11.7°C | 41 m |
Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled ·
Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting
Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelledDepth runs down from the surface. The modelled dive never passes the measured seafloor at that sighting.
Dives
128 m
Deepest dive
5:12
Longest dive
1,064
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
81
Sightings
138
Days first → last
Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured
Get actual dive data with Risa Deep →Dive profile
modelledDepth shaped by the seafloor limit here (147 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.
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Where this happened · Jul 20, 2026
measured- Seafloor depth
- 147 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 13.0°C
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km
Across the residency · 81 sightings
measured- Seafloor depth
- 9 m – 241 m
- Sea-surface temperature
- 7.9°C – 15.8°C
- Distance from shore
- 1.0 km – 6.0 km
Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance
Source records
This activity is assembled from 81 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.
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