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Salish Sea

Hodgepodge – Residency

35th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Hodgepodge
Hodgepodge Confirmed in the catalog @18558
Aug 23 – Oct 11, 2026 · Salish Sea

Tide Lines, Same Old Green

Salish Sea kept calling me back into good company all August.

110 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
85
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
49

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 23, 2026134 m14.4°C75 m
Aug 26, 2026194 m14.5°C90 m
Aug 26, 2026188 m14.3°C35 m
Sep 7, 2026125 m15.4°C83 m
Oct 4, 2026131 m13.7°C110 m
Oct 11, 2026158 m10.2°C67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 23, 2026 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Aug 23Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 194 m (measured), deepest dive 90 m (modelled)Aug 26Aug 26, 2026 — seafloor 188 m (measured), deepest dive 35 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Sep 7Oct 4, 2026 — seafloor 131 m (measured), deepest dive 110 m (modelled)Oct 4Oct 11, 2026 — seafloor 158 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Oct 11

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

Dives

110 m
Deepest dive
4:53
Longest dive
85
Dives
28 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
49
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150110 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (131 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 · Oct 4, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
131 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m – 194 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 15.4°C
Distance from shore
4.0 km – 9.0 km

Sources: GEBCO seafloor grid · NASA JPL MUR sea temperature · PacIOOS coastline distance

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 6 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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