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Salish Sea

Meqe' – Residency

48th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Meqe'
Meqe' Confirmed in the catalog @28530
Jun 19 – Sep 11, 2026 · Salish Sea

My Green Water Summer

Fish stacked up thick, and this bay knows me by name.

107 m
Deepest dive
3:43
Longest dive
90
Dives
Sightings
7
Days between first and last sighting
84

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 19, 2026128 m15.8°C107 m
Jun 28, 2026172 m13.7°C62 m
Jul 11, 202697 m14.0°C68 m
Jul 19, 2026105 m13.8°C47 m
Jul 31, 202668 m16.0°C57 m
Sep 3, 202663 m15.1°C44 m
Sep 11, 2026203 m15.7°C96 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 19, 2026 — seafloor 128 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jun 19Jun 28, 2026 — seafloor 172 m (measured), deepest dive 62 m (modelled)Jun 28Jul 11, 2026 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 68 m (modelled)Jul 11Jul 19, 2026 — seafloor 105 m (measured), deepest dive 47 m (modelled)Jul 19Jul 31, 2026 — seafloor 68 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 31Sep 3, 2026 — seafloor 63 m (measured), deepest dive 44 m (modelled)Sep 3Sep 11, 2026 — seafloor 203 m (measured), deepest dive 96 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

107 m
Deepest dive
3:43
Longest dive
90
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
7
Sightings
84
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150107 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (128 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 · Jun 19, 2026

measured
Seafloor depth
128 m
Sea-surface temperature
15.8°C
Distance from shore
12.0 km

Across the residency · 7 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
63 m – 203 m
Sea-surface temperature
13.7°C – 16.0°C
Distance from shore
1.0 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.

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