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Salish Sea

Mosquito – Residency

16th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Mosquito
Mosquito Confirmed in the catalog @34611
Jul 31 – Aug 28, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Aug 2025

114 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
51
Dives
Sightings
4
Days between first and last sighting
28

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 31, 202522 m17.5°C19 m
Aug 6, 2025146 m14.7°C52 m
Aug 10, 202528 m14.3°C20 m
Aug 28, 2025125 m16.6°C114 m

Seafloor and sea temperature measured · ✳ dives modelled

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Deepest dive against the seafloor, per sighting

Seafloor · measured Deepest dive · modelled
Jul 31, 2025 — seafloor 22 m (measured), deepest dive 19 m (modelled)Jul 31Aug 6, 2025 — seafloor 146 m (measured), deepest dive 52 m (modelled)Aug 6Aug 10, 2025 — seafloor 28 m (measured), deepest dive 20 m (modelled)Aug 10Aug 28, 2025 — seafloor 125 m (measured), deepest dive 114 m (modelled)Aug 28

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

Dives

114 m
Deepest dive
4:19
Longest dive
51
Dives
21 m
Avg dive depth
4
Sightings
28
Days first → last

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Dive profile

modelled
075150114 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (125 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 28, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
125 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
3.0 km

Across the residency · 4 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
22 m – 146 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.3°C – 17.5°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 7.0 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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