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Fluke of Frankenstein Confirmed in the catalog

Frankenstein @3715

Frankenstein was named by naturalists in the Salish Sea from scarring on the whale's fluke making it look patched together. This whale is known from research conducted by Cascadia Research Collective and collaborators

Salish Sea · North Pacific

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70 Following 294 Followers
130
Sightings
19
Years
5
Crossings
Last 12 months 6 sightings
  1. N 2025-11: 0 sightings
  2. D 2025-12: 0 sightings
  3. J 2026-01: 0 sightings
  4. F 2026-02: 0 sightings
  5. M 2026-03: 0 sightings
  6. A 2026-04: 0 sightings
  7. M 2026-05: 1 sighting
  8. J 2026-06: 0 sightings
  9. J 2026-07: 4 sightings
  10. A 2026-08: 0 sightings
  11. S 2026-09: 0 sightings
  12. O 2026-10: 1 sighting

Activities

15 in Risa
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Home Water, Early Summer May 27 – Oct 3, 2026 · Salish Sea · 6 sightings Deepest dive183 m Longest dive6:02
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jun – Oct 2025 Jun 19 – Oct 10, 2025 · Salish Sea · 11 sightings Deepest dive166 m Longest dive5:59
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2024 Jul 8 – Oct 26, 2024 · Salish Sea · 13 sightings Deepest dive130 m Longest dive5:01
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2023 Jul 19 – Oct 20, 2023 · Salish Sea · 20 sightings Deepest dive108 m Longest dive5:12
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jul – Oct 2022 Jul 7 – Oct 8, 2022 · Salish Sea · 20 sightings Deepest dive130 m Longest dive5:19
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jun – Oct 2020 Jun 17 – Oct 17, 2020 · Salish Sea · 6 sightings Deepest dive125 m Longest dive4:28
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Au'au Channel · Mar 2020 Mar 6, 2020 · Au'au Channel · 1 sighting Deepest dive34 m Longest dive1:31
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jun – Nov 2018 Jun 30 – Nov 23, 2018 · Salish Sea · 9 sightings Deepest dive129 m Longest dive4:26
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · May – Sep 2017 May 26 – Sep 22, 2017 · Salish Sea · 5 sightings Deepest dive76 m Longest dive3:20
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Jul – Sep 2016 Jul 7 – Sep 22, 2016 · Salish Sea · 4 sightings Deepest dive103 m Longest dive3:46
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Sep 2015 Sep 8, 2015 · Salish Sea · 1 sighting Deepest dive79 m Longest dive3:17
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Gulf of California · Feb 2015 Feb 28, 2015 · Gulf of California · 1 sighting Deepest dive45 m Longest dive2:33
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Aug 2014 Aug 2, 2014 · Salish Sea · 1 sighting Deepest dive83 m Longest dive2:54
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Salish Sea · Oct 2013 Oct 17, 2013 · Salish Sea · 1 sighting Deepest dive65 m Longest dive2:28
Activity map — real sighting points on an OpenStreetMap basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors
 Gulf of California · Feb 2008 Feb 19, 2008 · Gulf of California · 1 sighting Deepest dive121 m Longest dive3:22

✳ Dive stats modelled, not measured

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.

The photographs and fluke identifications behind every sighting are the work of the contributing observers — the citizen scientists, naturalists and operators who logged them, each named in the underlying GBIF occurrence record. Every activity links out to its source encounters on Happywhale. Basemaps © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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