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Salish Sea

Trifecta – Residency

46th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Trifecta
Trifecta Confirmed in the catalog @26492
Jun 6 – Sep 22, 2026 · Salish Sea

Deep Water, Old Friends

Herring running thick again this year, right where I like it — deep, dark, mine.

152 m
Deepest dive
8:09
Longest dive
89
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
107
Deepest dive on record
152 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 6, 2026144 m10.4°C55 m
Jun 13, 2026115 m11.7°C77 m
Jun 22, 2026160 m16.3°C73 m
Jul 8, 2026153 m16.9°C121 m
Jul 25, 2026183 m14.8°C107 m
Sep 20, 2026129 m15.9°C106 m
Sep 22, 2026174 m14.8°C152 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 6, 2026 — seafloor 144 m (measured), deepest dive 55 m (modelled)Jun 6Jun 13, 2026 — seafloor 115 m (measured), deepest dive 77 m (modelled)Jun 13Jun 22, 2026 — seafloor 160 m (measured), deepest dive 73 m (modelled)Jun 22Jul 8, 2026 — seafloor 153 m (measured), deepest dive 121 m (modelled)Jul 8Jul 25, 2026 — seafloor 183 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jul 25Sep 20, 2026 — seafloor 129 m (measured), deepest dive 106 m (modelled)Sep 20Sep 22, 2026 — seafloor 174 m (measured), deepest dive 152 m (modelled)Sep 22

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

Dives

152 m
Deepest dive
8:09
Longest dive
89
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
107
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200152 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (174 m) and the published dive-behaviour distribution. Modelled, not measured.

Deep Effort Score

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Depth, duration and recovery resolved into a single number for this session.

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Place

Where this happened · Sep 22, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
174 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.8°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
115 m – 183 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.4°C – 16.9°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km – 12.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 7 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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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