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Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage

SEAK-5630 – Residency

1st sighting in Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage
Fluke of SEAK-5630
SEAK-5630 Confirmed in the catalog @25374
Sep 24 – 25, 2026 · Lynn Canal & Stephens Passage

Chatham Strait, Round Again

Cold water, good company, two blows caught on the same stretch.

79 m
Deepest dive
2:40
Longest dive
19
Dives
Sightings
2
Days between first and last sighting
1

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Sep 24, 2026231 m10.6°C79 m
Sep 25, 202688 m10.0°C67 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Sep 24, 2026 — seafloor 231 m (measured), deepest dive 79 m (modelled)Sep 24Sep 25, 2026 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 67 m (modelled)Sep 25

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

Dives

79 m
Deepest dive
2:40
Longest dive
19
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
2
Sightings
1
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
05010079 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (231 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 · Sep 24, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
231 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 2 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
88 m – 231 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.0°C – 10.6°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 2 catalogued encounters on Happywhale.

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