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Salish Sea

Bullwinkle – Residency

25th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle Confirmed in the catalog @22285
Jun 22 – Sep 8, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring Season, Full Company

Cameras kept finding me all summer—crowded water, good eating, better friends.

142 m
Deepest dive
5:29
Longest dive
137
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
78

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 22, 2026160 m16.3°C142 m
Jun 27, 2026164 m13.9°C114 m
Jul 5, 2026152 m15.7°C71 m
Jul 8, 2026153 m16.9°C120 m
Jul 17, 202653 m14.7°C45 m
Jul 27, 2026111 m15.5°C82 m
Aug 31, 2026173 m14.5°C130 m
Sep 7, 2026125 m—63 m
Sep 8, 2026130 m—75 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 142 m (modelled)Jun 22Jun 27, 2026 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Jun 27Jul 5, 2026 — seafloor 152 m (measured), deepest dive 71 m (modelled)Jul 5Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 120 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 17, 2026 — seafloor 53 m (measured), deepest dive 45 m (modelled)Jul 17Jul 27, 2026 — seafloor 111 m (measured), deepest dive 82 m (modelled)Jul 27Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 130 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 7, 2026 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 63 m (modelled)Sep 7Sep 8, 2026 — seafloor 130 m (measured), deepest dive 75 m (modelled)Sep 8

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

Dives

142 m
Deepest dive
5:29
Longest dive
137
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
78
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150142 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (160 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 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
160 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.3°C
Distance from shore
6.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
53 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.9°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 8.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 9 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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