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Salish Sea

Hale-Bopp – Residency

50th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Hale-Bopp
Hale-Bopp Confirmed in the catalog @22295
Jun 2 – Aug 28, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2025

94 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
62
Dives
Sightings
6
Days between first and last sighting
87

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 2, 2025163 m10.4°C93 m
Jul 27, 2025132 m14.9°C93 m
Jul 28, 2025133 m14.7°C78 m
Aug 2, 2025167 m17.9°C80 m
Aug 3, 2025164 m17.6°C94 m
Aug 28, 2025125 m16.6°C46 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 2, 2025 — seafloor 163 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jun 2Jul 27, 2025 — seafloor 132 m (measured), deepest dive 93 m (modelled)Jul 27Jul 28, 2025 — seafloor 133 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Jul 28Aug 2, 2025 — seafloor 167 m (measured), deepest dive 80 m (modelled)Aug 2Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 46 m (modelled)Aug 28

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

Dives

94 m
Deepest dive
3:45
Longest dive
62
Dives
32 m
Avg dive depth
6
Sightings
87
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
05010094 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (164 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 · Aug 3, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
164 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.6°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 6 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m – 167 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 17.9°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 6.0 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.

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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