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Salish Sea

Holey Moley – Residency

18th sighting in Salish Sea
Fluke of Holey Moley
Holey Moley Confirmed in the catalog @34615
Jul 15 – Sep 11, 2025 · Salish Sea

Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2025

177 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
60
Dives
Sightings
5
Days between first and last sighting
58

Dive stats modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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SightingSeafloorSea tempDeepest dive (modelled)
Jul 15, 202564 m18.0°C57 m
Jul 29, 2025271 m15.7°C107 m
Aug 9, 2025150 m14.6°C94 m
Aug 26, 2025242 m15.0°C31 m
Sep 11, 2025263 m16.6°C177 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 15, 2025 — seafloor 64 m (measured), deepest dive 57 m (modelled)Jul 15Jul 29, 2025 — seafloor 271 m (measured), deepest dive 107 m (modelled)Jul 29Aug 9, 2025 — seafloor 150 m (measured), deepest dive 94 m (modelled)Aug 9Aug 26, 2025 — seafloor 242 m (measured), deepest dive 31 m (modelled)Aug 26Sep 11, 2025 — seafloor 263 m (measured), deepest dive 177 m (modelled)Sep 11

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

Dives

177 m
Deepest dive
5:40
Longest dive
60
Dives
26 m
Avg dive depth
5
Sightings
58
Days first → last

Dive metrics are modelled within real depth limits — not measured

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Dive profile

modelled
0100200177 mstartdive sequence (illustrative)

Depth shaped by the seafloor limit here (263 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 · Sep 11, 2025

measured
Seafloor depth
263 m
Sea-surface temperature
16.6°C
Distance from shore
8.0 km

Across the residency · 5 sightings

measured
Seafloor depth
64 m – 271 m
Sea-surface temperature
14.6°C – 18.0°C
Distance from shore
2.0 km – 13.0 km

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

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Source records

This activity is assembled from 5 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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