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Salish Sea

CRC-17616 – Residency

4th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of CRC-17616
CRC-17616 Confirmed in the catalog @22714
Aug 21 – Sep 20, 2026 · Salish Sea

Hallway in the Dark

Early autumn, these narrow channels, and me moving through like I own them.

98 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
53
Dives
Sightings
3
Days between first and last sighting
30
Deepest dive on record
98 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 21, 2026175 m14.9°C98 m
Sep 4, 2026195 m15.2°C96 m
Sep 20, 2026129 m15.9°C74 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 21, 2026 — seafloor 175 m (measured), deepest dive 98 m (modelled)Aug 21Sep 4, 2026 — seafloor 195 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Sep 4Sep 20, 2026 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 20

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

Dives

98 m
Deepest dive
3:16
Longest dive
53
Dives
29 m
Avg dive depth
3
Sightings
30
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010098 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (175 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 21, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
175 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 3 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
129 m – 195 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.9°C – 15.9°C
Distance from shore
5.0 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 3 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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