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Salish Sea

Oracle – Residency

54th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Oracle
Oracle Confirmed in the catalog @22389
Jun 20 – Aug 30, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Aug 2025

103 m
Deepest dive
5:19
Longest dive
119
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
71

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 20, 2025115 m12.3°C83 m
Jun 29, 2025144 m10.4°C103 m
Jun 30, 2025137 m10.5°C60 m
Jul 5, 2025110 m12.3°C73 m
Aug 1, 202519 m18.2°C17 m
Aug 17, 2025176 m14.7°C72 m
Aug 28, 2025125 m16.6°C88 m
Aug 29, 2025170 m16.3°C29 m
Aug 30, 2025134 m16.3°C78 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 20, 2025 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Jun 20Jun 29, 2025 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 103 m (modelled)Jun 29Jun 30, 2025 — seafloor 137 m (measured), deepest dive 60 m (modelled)Jun 30Jul 5, 2025 — seafloor 110 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jul 5Aug 1, 2025 — seafloor 19 m (measured), deepest dive 17 m (modelled)Aug 1Aug 17, 2025 — seafloor 176 m (measured), deepest dive 72 m (modelled)Aug 17Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 88 m (modelled)Aug 28Aug 29, 2025 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 29 m (modelled)Aug 29Aug 30, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 78 m (modelled)Aug 30

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

Dives

103 m
Deepest dive
5:19
Longest dive
119
Dives
23 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
71
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150103 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (144 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 29, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
144 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
19 m – 176 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 18.2°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 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.

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