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Salish Sea

Spindrift – Residency

41st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Spindrift
Spindrift Confirmed in the catalog @27022
Aug 3 – Sep 27, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Aug – Sep 2025

145 m
Deepest dive
4:57
Longest dive
22
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
55
Deepest dive on record
145 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Aug 3, 2025170 m17.7°C109 m
Aug 3, 2025164 m17.6°C145 m
Aug 24, 2025184 m15.2°C54 m
Sep 27, 202541 m14.1°C32 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 3, 2025 — seafloor 170 m (measured), deepest dive 109 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 3, 2025 — seafloor 164 m (measured), deepest dive 145 m (modelled)Aug 3Aug 24, 2025 — seafloor 184 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Aug 24Sep 27, 2025 — seafloor 41 m (measured), deepest dive 32 m (modelled)Sep 27

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

Dives

145 m
Deepest dive
4:57
Longest dive
22
Dives
31 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
55
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150145 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (164 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 3, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
164 m
Sea-surface temperature
17.6°C
Distance from shore
5.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
41 m – 184 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.1°C – 17.7°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km – 10.0 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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