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Salish Sea

CRC-18219 – Residency

8th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of CRC-18219
CRC-18219 Confirmed in the catalog @24101
Aug 31 – Oct 15, 2026 · Salish Sea

Herring Season, Narrow Waters

Caught twice in these tidal lanes—herring running thick, life running good.

102 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
34
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
45

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 31, 202689 m14.8°C65 m
Sep 20, 2026129 m15.9°C74 m
Oct 12, 2026173 m10.5°C102 m
Oct 15, 2026126 m11.7°C—

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Aug 31, 2026 — seafloor 89 m (measured), deepest dive 65 m (modelled)Aug 31Sep 20, 2026 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 74 m (modelled)Sep 20Oct 12, 2026 — seafloor 173 m (measured), deepest dive 102 m (modelled)Oct 12Oct 15, 2026 — seafloor 126 m (measured), deepest dive — (modelled)Oct 15

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

Dives

102 m
Deepest dive
4:31
Longest dive
34
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
45
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150102 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (173 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 12, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
173 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C
Distance from shore
9.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
89 m – 173 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.5°C – 15.9°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 4 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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