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Salish Sea

Meqe' – Residency

41st sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Meqe'
Meqe' Confirmed in the catalog @28530
Jun 17 – Nov 7, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jun – Nov 2025

256 m
Deepest dive
7:33
Longest dive
121
Dives
Sightings
9
Days between first and last sighting
143
Deepest dive on record
256 m · this residency

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jun 17, 2025143 m11.8°C54 m
Jul 30, 202544 m18.6°C39 m
Jul 30, 2025323 m18.3°C256 m
Aug 12, 2025134 m15.4°C64 m
Aug 19, 2025102 m14.9°C83 m
Aug 24, 202510 m15.3°C9 m
Aug 29, 202597 m16.4°C86 m
Oct 31, 202564 m11.0°C27 m
Nov 7, 202588 m10.2°C66 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 17, 2025 — seafloor 143 m (measured), deepest dive 54 m (modelled)Jun 17Jul 30, 2025 — seafloor 44 m (measured), deepest dive 39 m (modelled)Jul 30Jul 30, 2025 — seafloor 323 m (measured), deepest dive 256 m (modelled)Jul 30Aug 12, 2025 — seafloor 134 m (measured), deepest dive 64 m (modelled)Aug 12Aug 19, 2025 — seafloor 102 m (measured), deepest dive 83 m (modelled)Aug 19Aug 24, 2025 — seafloor 10 m (measured), deepest dive 9 m (modelled)Aug 24Aug 29, 2025 — seafloor 97 m (measured), deepest dive 86 m (modelled)Aug 29Oct 31, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 27 m (modelled)Oct 31Nov 7, 2025 — seafloor 88 m (measured), deepest dive 66 m (modelled)Nov 7

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

Dives

256 m
Deepest dive
7:33
Longest dive
121
Dives
27 m
Avg dive depth
9
Sightings
143
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
0150300256 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (323 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 · Jul 30, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
323 m
Sea-surface temperature
18.3°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km

Across the residency · 9 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
10 m – 323 m
Sea-surface temperature
10.2°C – 18.6°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 9 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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